segedunum wrote:
1. That all four of Hamilton's wheels weren't over the white line, therefore it was all OK. There is pictorial evidence that says all four wheels were over the line of the pit lane entry - even though there is no such ruling about 'four wheels'! It's if you drive anywhere outside of the pit area to gain entrance, or exit.
If a car goes off track, and comes back on, while not passing (ie already past a certain SV) then there are no rules broken. This is under the assumption that the pit entrance is not part of the pit lane, but part of the race track. If the pit entrance is part of the pit lane like you insist, and not just part of the race track, why is there no speed limit? The pit lane rules are very clear, there is no doubt about that from either of us.
If by hitting the speed limit line, you suddenly have to follow all the pit lane rules, it would be wise to assume, by exclusion, that anything up to that line is not the pit lane.
You are focusing on the number of wheels, I am focusing on what part of the track the pit entrance is defined as. If you can say what part of the track it is, then the rules are easy to bring forward and apply. If it just part of the race track, which almost everyone agrees with, then you can exit and renter the track as often as you want, so long as re-entering the track doesn't endanger other drivers, or so long as you didn't exit the track to pass.
segedunum wrote:2. It was OK because Hamilton entered the pit lane from an off-track area, so presumably because he wasn't actually on the track it was then OK.
We don't seem to have seen or heard of that theory again.
Again, Pit Lane/Pit Entrance. You are interchanging the terms freely and loosely without providing a unique definition of pit entrance, or something to combine the pit entry with the pit lane.
segedunum wrote:3. Even though you've made previous arguments based on the pit lane entry and the white lines that designate it, you now completely ignore them as being a part of the pit lane at all even though there is no ruling that the pit lane begins and ends at the speed line although pit lane entry (and exit) and the track
See my first counterpoint. Same thing.
segedunum wrote:4. Finally, obviously if you ignore the pit lane entry area then you have the problem of the pit lane exit. The only option left is to argue that both are somehow different when there is no ruling anywhere that we have seen that says that they are.
Pit Exit has specific rules about crossing the line separating the track and Pit Exit. I can find no such specific rules to the Pit Entrance, nor can I find any thing claiming it to be a separate entity from the Race Track.
By logical exclusion therefore of the Pit Lane rules coming into effect at the white line (which officially denotes the start of the Pit Lane and Speed Limit), there is nothing that says by article or logic that the Pit Entry is anything but racetrack.
