Call me cynical but.....
Call me cynical but.....
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pauly

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434 posts

311 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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I have this nagging thought at the back of my mind that the SC today wasn't at all necessary but seeing as JB and NR were 70 seconds ahead of most of the field at the time a certain Mr Ecclescake saw the need to make the race more exciting and bunch up the field again. Maybe it's a result of all the crap that's gone on in F1 over the last few years but it did seem very strange.

Jasandjules

72,583 posts

258 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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As if.

Bernie's far too busy sending up the planes to make rain clouds for that............

plg

4,106 posts

239 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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I suspect part of it is linked to MB's comments about the marshalls.

No national series, limited experience of marshalls to recover cars/debris at F1 speeds. That material could possibly have been recovered under double waved yellows - but the camera angles weren't great fro seeing quite how much was spread across the track.

Call me cynical as well, but I suspect at most tracks that the SC wouldn't have been deployed.

sheps

742 posts

226 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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Better to be safe than have bits of marshall spread across the track.

PabloTeK

1,073 posts

204 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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I agree with the double-yellows; most other races have seen those for that amount of debris, unless there was something we missed?

DSM2

3,624 posts

229 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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pauly said:
I have this nagging thought at the back of my mind that the SC today wasn't at all necessary but seeing as JB and NR were 70 seconds ahead of most of the field at the time a certain Mr Ecclescake saw the need to make the race more exciting and bunch up the field again. Maybe it's a result of all the crap that's gone on in F1 over the last few years but it did seem very strange.
Almost certainly so.

mattikake

5,116 posts

228 months

Sunday 18th April 2010
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Wasn't the debris only in the pit entry? They could've closed the pitlane for a couple of laps.