Certainly goes a long way to explaining Oscar’s frustration.Some interesting data comparison between the SCs on laps 17 and 21.
Incredible data suggests Oscar Piastri unlucky with inconsistent Safety Car penalty
Fresh data from Oscar Piastri's McLaren has offered new insight into the penalty that cost him victory in the British GP.www.planetf1.com
One of the vagaries of F1 appears to be the ‘interpretation’ of the rules by stewards. Not sure (maybe I am) why McLaren didn’t back Oscar and pursue this heavily. As for Lando’s dad trying to rain of Hulk’s parade ..less said the better
I did think VER was exaggerating things a bit at the time (which would be typical VER gamesmanship), but to be fair, his comments post-race seem to suggest he was as surprised as PIA that a 10 second penalty was handed down. I also don't know that VER had much to gain by really milking the situation as he was nowhere on pace relative to the McLarens. I can't see him ever having done better than 3rd (assuming both McLarens managed to keep it on the black stuff).
I also suspect if Max didn't spin out, Oscar might have still had a chance even with the penalty. He was doing some serious times up ahead leaving Max in the spray and Lando was struggling to overtake Max safely quickly.
True. That pretty much sealed PIA's fate once it was clear that penalty wasn't going away. I had my fingers and toes crossed for another SC in the dying laps, but sadly, STR didn't see fit to oblige.
I think it was doomed either way. McLaren weren't going to pit their drivers until they saw what the slicks were doing in the rest of the field and the most likely time for an incident was at that point when the field all put on their tires. I think thats why they pitted Oscar immediately the lap after the bulk of the field pitted. If someone spun out then, and he hadn't served his penalty, forget second he might be out of points.
10 Seconds is ridiculous given VER 10 s penalty for deliberately crashing into other cars. Not judging but how convenient for stewards at a British race to give PIA 10 seconds so that NOR would win.Some interesting data comparison between the SCs on laps 17 and 21.
Incredible data suggests Oscar Piastri unlucky with inconsistent Safety Car penalty
Fresh data from Oscar Piastri's McLaren has offered new insight into the penalty that cost him victory in the British GP.
I would temper that somewhat by saying that he was running out front with a clear view of what was ahead of him. VER was driving incredibly defensively and doing his level best to keep NOR at bay, so PIA was largely given a free run up front. That being said, he still needed to do a job in terms of exploiting that advantage and he was looking very safe.
And the British commentators, spectators and Norris were all very happy about the situation. Norris, could have been a little more gracious towards Oscar in the post race interviews.
To be fair to NOR, he would have had very little info at that point in time. His race engineer would not have offered any more info beyond the essentials during the race (i.e. PIA has a 10s penalty) to enable NOR to manage his race accordingly, and on the cool-down lap, his engineer + Zak Brown would have been congratulating him on his race win (as they should given NOR did nothing wrong). I suspect the first that NOR really knew about what went on was in the cool-down room ahead of the podium presentations and even then, it was PIA's version of events with no additional info/context. So at the time he was being interviewed by Jenson post-race, his understanding of the race was likely along the lines of "...I got a bit lucky with PIA copping a penalty (for whatever reason it was issued), but you take the luck when it goes your way and I never-the-less drove a good race and withstood the pressure in treacherous conditions whilst others around me threw it away."
