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Fair point here > โOkay, itโs two of us today, but if 15 cars had damage and had to do what we did, are they going to start a race with 15 cars a lap down? I donโt think so. So I think they need to be a bit more open-minded. So that was frustrating.โ
Shit yeah!
Why was he a lap down? Bullshit! That's why!
Serious answer: because he retired the damaged car during the safety car. The safety car went for another lap, before the red flag came out.
Doesn't red flag have a provision to unlap cars only 1 lap behindยฟ?
Given that they didn't the answer is apparently no.
But Lewis and others unlapped themselves in 2021 at imola. I remember it being a major talking point of how Lewis was bailed out by the red flag
Yep, was pretty annoying watching. Didn't get to see any of ric or piastri on the feed either because they were dead last.
That's what happened to Ricciardo and Piastri, I thought they were just slow because of damage! Given that lapped cars are generally allowed to unlap themselves before a safety car restart, why wasn't this allowed for a red flag standing restart?
Because it wasn't a safety car restart. Inconsistent rule book. Obviously the rules for safety car restart and red flag restart should be the same, but currently they aren't.
I wonder if either team thought of this (and/or decided it was too risky and/or checked with race control and got an explicit 'no'):
After the formation-but-not-formation lap returning to the pits as everyone else took to the grid, then driving through and completing another lap while the grid was forming up.
IIRC during that lap the graphic said safety car, so I don't see why you couldn't drive through the pits and continue on as you could under a normal safety car.