摩納哥衝線扒頭事件, 終於搵到個清晰的解釋
細讀之後, 明白了.
Typically, the row centres around a part of the F1 rule book that, while its intent is clear, leaves room for interpretation.
呢拿, 連專家都話有走棧位, 就唔怪得我地之前的種種指控喇
不過最緊要是搵出真相了解事實, 又學多一樣野.
Article 40.13 of the Formula 1 sporting regulations states: "If the race ends while the safety car is deployed it will enter the pit lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking."
Clearly, the rule is meant to be read as meaning that if the safety car is out during the final lap then, although it will pull into the pits before the end of the lap, the cars will proceed to the finish line without being allowed to overtake.
The reason the rule exists is simply because it looks better on television not to have the safety car crossing the line in front of the racing cars.
原來喱條賽例的最重點精神是 : 電視畫面好睇d !!! 收視率萬歲
But the problem is that it can be argued by clever people - and they do not come much cleverer than Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn - that the meaning of the rule is clouded by the initial sub-clause: "If the race ends while the safety car is deployed..."
Brawn's argument is that because the safety car had pulled into the pits, the race was back on, and Schumacher was therefore permitted to overtake Alonso once they had passed what is known as the "safety car line".
This line, which is painted across the track before the final corner, is a new development this year.
Previously, when a race was restarted after a safety car period, the cars were not allowed to overtake until they had crossed the finish line at the start of the next lap.
From this year, though, they can now start to race once they pass this line, which at Monaco was on the exit of the Rascasse hairpin as the cars begin the climb up to the final corner, Anthony Noghes.
Those who wrote the rules would argue that the reason Brawn's interpretation is wrong is that the only time article 40.13 can possibly apply is if the safety car is out at the beginning of the last lap.
In that event, the safety car will pull in to the pit lane, for aforementioned aesthetic reasons, at the end of the lap. But the fact that it is in the pit lane is irrelevant - it is still effectively controlling the cars because article 40.13 says they cannot overtake.
Brawn and Schumacher argued that at this point green flags were displayed, meaning they were able to race.
But the rule-makers would say that is the case every time the safety car pulls in. The reason for it is to let all the drivers know, wherever they are on the track, that the safety car has pulled in. But they are still not allowed to overtake until the specified point - which on the last lap means not at all.
It was also clearly shared by the stewards.
現在明白晒了!
原來如此. 不過真係幾.....不能用"複雜"來形容....好咬文嚼字囉, 同埋一定要理解條例背後的精神係乜囉!!! <---- 喱吓先至最攞命!
But many an F1 rule has fallen down on the difference between intent and interpretation.
好在有這句安慰獎.
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