Safety Car Investigation - Those who havent watched avoid!

[TheArchitect]

Why couldn't the FIA impose penalties on the cars during the race???? surely they all have the live timing info so they know whether anyone broke the timing limits set out!

anyone know what the reasoning is behind the investigation after the race?

[Wanta996Gotta]

TheArchitect said:

Why couldn't the FIA impose penalties on the cars during the race???? surely they all have the live timing info so they know whether anyone broke the timing limits set out!

anyone know what the reasoning is behind the investigation after the race?

Spent too much time investigating Lewis? Maybe the data takes allot longer than we think to scrutinise.

[FourWheelDrift]

They do it by GPS so perhaps it's a simple system that's not re-viewable on the fly and they have to wait until after the race to get the data.

[touring fan]

TheArchitect said:

anyone know what the reasoning is behind the investigation after the race?

Its all part of the FIA's manipulation of the race results.

It must be true. Alonso thinks they did......;-)

[KaraK]

My thoughts were that they wanted to speak with all the individual drivers, and the time taken after the race would support this. I got the impression that most if not all of the affected drivers didn't complete a full lap before pitting and some may not even have done a full sector (such as Jenson) so this makes doing it off just the timing information rather difficult.

God knows where they got the "5sec" penalty from though, can't say I've ever heard of a rule that allows them to do that (and if they could wouldn't that have been more appropriate in the Monaco incident?). It all sounds to me like either they didn't really have a solid case and just wanted to be seen to be doing "something" or they knew applying larger penalties and re-ordering a good chunk of the points would just make F1 look farcical.