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Motorsports 2026

So there is a good explanation for all of the speeding penalties. The way the speed is determined is time between lines in the track, and the drivers were cutting a corner in the pits. Legally cutting the corners. So going a constant speed over a shorter distance means a faster time measurement, and therefore too fast, and therefore speeding.

Alpine is appealing Gasley’s penalty, and it seems that he’s the only one who is in a position to get out of it. Lewis got to serve his for free, Russel didn’t serve his and got a bonus drive through.
 
Of all the racers who DNF'd today, I feel bad for Carlos Sainz. He had a 100% points streak for Monaco, and was sitting in the points until he was side slammed in the hairpin and then spun out before the tunnel.
 
I guess one man's gorgeous is another man's panoptica of ceiling HVAC units in the third-tackiest syphilis vector on earth (Vegas, Nice).
 
So the engine upgrades allowances were given to the teams over the weekend as reported by The Race

Red Bull: benchmark
Mercedes: one upgrade
Ferrari, Audi, Honda: two upgrades

Hm. Red Bull the best over Mercedes?

Perhaps Mercedes isn’t sharing enough with its customers?
 
I did appreciate Hamilton spending a few minutes examining the back and underside of Kimi's car during the post race interviews. That man is trying to singlehandedly fix Ferrari. 😂

Also, third podium this season for Lewis with zero simulator time going into the weekend.
 
aparch said:
I did appreciate Hamilton spending a few minutes examining the back and underside of Kimi's car during the post race interviews. That man is trying to singlehandedly fix Ferrari. 😂

Also, third podium this season for Lewis with zero simulator time going into the weekend.
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Apparently, one of the test drivers has confirmed the Ferrari simulator is not accurate for this year's car. So, Hamilton has been wise to not use it.
 
MichVandal said:
Amusing that the track is coming apart, since this is the classic street race.
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They repaved that section of the track for this year, and apparently used the "wrong" compound. Wrong in the sense that it didn't work when many other race tracks have figured this out a long time ago.

As for Perez, how the living hell can a veteran of his experience line up for a start in the wrong spot not once, but TWICE?!
 
MichVandal said:
So there is a good explanation for all of the speeding penalties. The way the speed is determined is time between lines in the track, and the drivers were cutting a corner in the pits. Legally cutting the corners. So going a constant speed over a shorter distance means a faster time measurement, and therefore too fast, and therefore speeding.

Alpine is appealing Gasley’s penalty, and it seems that he’s the only one who is in a position to get out of it. Lewis got to serve his for free, Russel didn’t serve his and got a bonus drive through.
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I’ll be damned. Gasly regains the podium. Didn’t expect them to reverse it, but I think it’s the right call. Bummer for Hadjar, but also a bummer for Gasly who didn’t get the podium celebration.
 
state of hockey said:
I’ll be damned. Gasly regains the podium. Didn’t expect them to reverse it, but I think it’s the right call. Bummer for Hadjar, but also a bummer for Gasly who didn’t get the podium celebration.
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I don't think this was the right thing to do. It pretty much screwed over everyone else who got the penalty and served it. Or worse, like Russel who got penalized extra for not serving said penalty.

Even when the cars were below the limit, they need to stick to their guns to make sure the rules are/were applied evenly.
 
So speed was being calculated by distance/time through the pit lane. While their speedometers were below the limit, they were making it through the pit lane faster than should happen based on the calc. From what I’ve read, cars were clipping through the Cadillac pit lane, cutting down the distance.

Is there not a written regulation that pit lane speed is measured in one specific way?Seems to me everyone was essentially going outside track limits in the pit lane, which seems like a slam dunk penalty. If you can’t cross the pit exit line while coming out, why would you be able to cut across other pit lanes while in the pits?
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
So speed was being calculated by distance/time through the pit lane. While their speedometers were below the limit, they were making it through the pit lane faster than should happen based on the calc. From what I’ve read, cars were clipping through the Cadillac pit lane, cutting down the distance.

Is there not a written regulation that pit lane speed is measured in one specific way?Seems to me everyone was essentially going outside track limits in the pit lane, which seems like a slam dunk penalty. If you can’t cross the pit exit line while coming out, why would you be able to cut across other pit lanes while in the pits?
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The problem was they measured the distance incorrectly. That's what caused the speed limit violations. Alpine used LIDAR technology to prove the distance FOM setup was incorrect.

And by the rules, nobody committed track limit violations.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
The problem was they measured the distance incorrectly. That's what caused the speed limit violations. Alpine used LIDAR technology to prove the distance FOM setup was incorrect.

And by the rules, nobody committed track limit violations.
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Not incorrectly, differently. Including the extra distance around the Cadillac pits isn't wrong, because driving through someone's pits isn't part of the fast lane, technically.

Yes, they were not violations of the track, but as I've posted before, the teams should have realized the difference in length.

Either way, right or wrong, they should have been consistent. Like if an ump was calling the strike zone big or small, the players dealt with it as long as it applied to teams the same. The fact that so many drivers could not appeal their penalty due to when they did it, and that they HAD to serve it, or else (ask George), there was no way to appeal their penalty. So Gasley should have kept the penalty regardless of the measurement system was incorrect.
 
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