Oh right, I had quite the brainfart there.
The steward decision states that Hülkenberg “failed to stay above the minimum time set”, so I guess he actually was too slow (which was seems to be an overcorrection from being too fast initially). Or is that expression actually steward-speak for “speeding”?
Yeah, those rejoins look really unsafe. This might cause a massive lap 1 incident even in the dry. Or when dive-bombing into turn 1 (which I don’t like, but it happens quite regularly here) goes worng, this might force contact instead of a bail-out.
Wouldn’t it be more desirable to just stay in the box instead of risking a crash? Obviously the lap times will not improve in the next few minutes, right?
With the ongoing rain, that has to be the final classification. Great work by Hulkenberg and Alonso. Verstappen delivering as expected.
Unless the rain stops before the track is green flagged again. But it currently looks like it would take more than 7 minutes to form a dry line again, even if the rain stopped right now.
Wow, Perez missings another Q3. Changing conditions give you some excuses, but overall that is not a good look against a team mate that is dominating the championship.
Just the perfect timing. Got the tyres into the temperature window before the rain got stronger. Not sure if those who put on the softs late will be caught out by the rain now.
If the rain picks up now and the softs take 2 laps to get to working temperature, those who just came in might lose out heavily.
I think you have to mark yourself for PVP to actually be able to attack or be attacked. At least that is what I understood when the tutorial messages popped up while uncovering the map there. Never got attacked while riding through there.
At this point I really need the penalties displayed next to the timing tower like in the F1 games. Can’t keep up with them.