FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2024 - Baku....Race........ ▄▀▄▀▄▀ SPOILERS ▄▀▄▀▄▀

When contact is made during a race, it will always divide opinions. Nothing is new.

What matter isn't the layman's point of view, but what the stewards decide.

"Durax lex sed lex" as the Romans used to say, if I remember my latin.

Which roughly translates as - The law is a b***h, but it's the law.

 

I think that one translates to: the law is a condom, but it’s the law.

The other one is probably "Dura lex sed lex"

 

Well, sure, Perez has every right to hold his line down the middle of the track as Sainz - ahead of him - moved in from the right to avoid hitting the wall on his right.

Now, if Perez had used some of the ample space and moved left to avoid the contact, do you think RB would have had a case for Sainz being penalized for leaving the track and gaining an advantage?

 

yes he would have. The distance between the white line and the wall closes to about the width of a rear tire at the point seen in the videos.

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Maclaren has cheater wings, and im sure Merc does too. Mini DRS mmm hmm

 

Perhaps. There was space for Sainz to stay farther right, that's for sure. But look at Leclerc's quali lap and how far left of the white line he goes. Sainz was already right of the normal driving line.



Just to be clear, I'm still not putting the blame on Perez. I think it remains as an avoidable racing incident.

 

Ever been in that situation?
Damned right you avoid the collision.
I've had to do that more times than I can count: brake or change lanes to avoid a cell phone zombie.
Once I could only avoid contact by running into the snow piled at the side of the road.
(Fortunately, the WRC derived ST-165 was rugged enough to withstand that.)
Twice I was unable to avoid contact. Both times because I was already hard up against the curb.
Both times I was ruled not at fault.

The funniest one was when an idiot moved in on my Alfa spider.
I braked to avoid and hit the horn. When the air horn went off, I could see the the stray car's roof dimple when the driver jumped his head up from his phone.
(I wanted to upgrade the anemic piezo horn with Fiamms, but I was given more conventional air horns as a present. The guy thought he'd drifted in on a semi. )

Not what the stewards found.

https://racingnews365.com/stewards-deliver-verdict-after-huge-sainz-perez-collision

 

At first glance, I also thought Sainz was trying to pull a two-fer on Leclerc.
But, on the replay, Sainz didn't get alongside Leclerc until Chuck braked.

Sainz had preserved his tires better than Leclerc who had been battling with Piastri.
It's likely Leclerc braked earlier than Carlos expected, because Chuck's tires had gone off.

Sainz then had to avoid running into his teammate, and wound up running wide.

 

TO me after looking at it and listening to some of the smarter talking heads, it seems like Carlos was in the right to move over as Checo HAD room to move left without being squeezed and since he was the overtaking car that would have been the move. It certainly was not clean by either of them. Racing.

 

Just Cheko being Cheko...Slim should just pull the life support cord.

 

RedBull could fund this with very little help. If one looks at the Team Partners page on RedBull F1 - 99% of them are not Mexican.
It’s a myth he holds any real overt influence on capital for the team. They are diverse in Corporate sponsors.

 

Better translation would be : Law is tough but it’s the law.

 

Yes.
Because if you don’t then there will surely be an accident.


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LOL, thanks.

One latin proverb I didn't know. Gotta remember this one (in both versions...).

As the toothless pirate in Asterix said:

O Tempo'a, o mo'es!

 

Perez and Sainz cleared the air during "awkward" medical centre meeting after Baku crash
The pair looked on course to make the podium at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix before their late coming together

 

Opportunity for the med techs to learn new Spanish words, I suppose.