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Should have been about 5 penalties in that game, the least of which was the one that was actually given!

Quote from Flame CZE :

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Why is Stu not an option for race winner?

Quote from chanoman315 :

Massa not braking at all, hows that Perez fault?

It's hard to brake when you've only got 1 front wheel left on your car.

Quote from chanoman315 :

How is not Massa's fault? Perez had no brakes and was braking earlier in every turn, you could see that, Massa made a silly mistake that's all.

How is Perez suddenly going a car's width away from the side of the track at the start of the braking zone Massa's fault?

EDIT: And having no brakes is even more not a reason to suddenly dive to the inside.

Not quite sure how that's Massa's fault??

Williams must have the fastest car that's ever been 6th in the Constructors Champ. As they just said on Sky, Massa should have won that race.

I hope the refs are slightly better for the actual finals.......

So how's the DW12? Is it like the FO8 (awesome) or BF1 (shite)? Videos make it look as good as they made whatever the last Indycar is called look bad.

Because 3-wide on lap 1 is for sissies.

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How's cota??

Waste of $15.

Or this one

http://www.vipboxuk.co/motorsp ... v-live-stream-online.html

Quote from Mustangman759 :

Get Gt3 jack, caddy sucks

I forgot you can't change cars once you're in the session. I only wanted to try out the Caddy then get the Macca out Sorry I sucked. Not raced iR since June and only got my G27 on Saturday.....

Holy mother of god yesterday I got sideways in the SRF at Okayama, yanked over opposite lock and actually held it for once! What is this heracy?

Quote from Hyperactive :

I was kinda afraid the fuel saving and I think the race did not show the right picture yet. Lots of safety cars and one extra start certainly helped a lot and teams generally needed to spend a lot less time saving fuel than normally I think. Malaysia should be little easier for fuel consumption and with a safety car there probably won't be an issue with fuel saving.

I think they were saying earlier that the teams are probably going to underfuel the cars, so the fuel saving is probably going to get worse

No action on Kobayashi as T1 incident was due to rear brake failure.

EDIT: With regards Daniel Ricciardo, the FIA say: "During the race car number 03 has exceeded consistently the maximum allowed fuel flow of 100 kg/h."

Awks.

Well this was definitely worth getting up at 5.30 for. C'mon K-Mag, Hulk and Bottas!

Vettel fails to make Q3. Crowd go wild. F**king love Aussies. #kimigate

So first breakdown - Hamilton stops after 10 corners.......

1. Who will win the drivers' world championship? Hamilton
2. Which team will win the constructors' world championship? Mercedes
3. Who will be the last finisher in Australian GP including people who: DNF, retire, get disqualified or are last to drive over the s/f line? Bianchi
4. Will 13 or more cars finish the Australian GP race within two laps of the winner? No
5. Who will score more points in 2014? Bottas or Massa? Massa
6. Who will score more points in 2014? Grosjean or Maldonado? Grosjean
7. Who will score more points in 2014? Räikkönen or Alonso? Alonso
8. What will be the best race finishing result for Magnussen in 2014? 3rd
9. Do you think Ricciardo will win at least one race in 2014? Yes
10. Who will be the first driver to lose his drive (or miss a race) during 2014? Maldonado after being banhammered
11. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2014? Yes
12. Who will qualify on pole position on the Sochi qualifying? Hamilton
13. Which driver from the four 'midfield' teams (Sauber, Force India, Toro Rosso and Williams) will score the most points during the season? Massa
14. Which team from the four 'midfield' teams (Sauber, Force India, Toro Rosso and Williams) will score the most points during the season? Williams
15. Do you think Simona de Silvestro will drive a 2014 spec F1 car during the 2014 season at any time? No
16. Who will win the Australian GP? Hamilton
17. Who will Win the Monaco GP? Hamilton
18. How many points will the DWC winning driver have at the end of the season? 262

Science, bitches.

Quote from Black the Ripper :

How could I (73) have seen that there was a yellow flag, 1st i had the mesage Green Flag overwriting the yellow and after that i had my laptime overwriting yellow. For a split second i had a yellow flag. No time to respond to that.

How can i appeal to it. Or consider this as one.

I'm not sure if JP is already planning to look at this again or what, but I thought I'd just put my opinion on here as I was the one that investigated it initially. (You do of course have a right to appeal and I/we will look it again for you if you so wish)

I've now downloaded the server-side replay to look at it again (to reduce effects of any lag from my end or anything). Firstly my apologies I did word that quite badly - I mean it is a yellow flag zone but you are indeed right in saying there's a massive GREEN FLAG message across your screen at the time of the incident. I should have worded it different and probably omitted the yellow flag reference.
Having re-looked at the replay I can't say I disagree with myself now - if I go on-board you, I can see the initial contact at Race Time 3:35.00 and 52 bolting left, then at about 3:35.50 I can see 69 bolting right, which instantly says to me, seeing as it's the start of the race, "woah there's going to be a big crash here. I should slow down". Your contact with Car 55 isn't until 3:37.00 (i.e. at least 1.5 seconds later), and in that whole time you're still full throttle, until the point of contact. If you take car 56 as an example, he's got a much worse view than you of the incident, (and doesn't even see the incident until 3:35.50 at which point he is much closer to the incident than you were when you could see it), yet he managed to slow down from 130mph and almost avoid everyone until he hits you at 60mph. So in short summary, my logic behind the penalty was the fact that, especially on the start and in such an enclosed area of the track, I felt you had plenty of time to see the incident occurring right in front of you and to provide some sort of "damage limitation action" (slowing down and/or steering) - 1.5 seconds is a pretty long time considering normal human reaction time is around 0.3 seconds. I think I was also quite surprised that people weren't being more careful on the start anyway.... So yeah there's my logic behind giving those penalties out, as you can see you weren't the only one!

Admin initiated investigation:

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Session of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 5: Qualifying 1, Qualifying 2, Race): Race
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day): GT2 Start
Car(s) involved: Practically the whole GT2 field
Location of Incident (Track Map Here): KY1 start finish line
Brief Description of Incident: Cars 69 and 52 make contact which results in a large wreck

Car 69 was found to not give sufficient room to Car 52 on his inside. For this, Car 69 is given a Drive-Through Penalty for not leaving sufficient racing room. Car 52 (and the rest of the field) are reminded that this is a 24 hour race and over-aggressiveness is not needed on starts or restarts.

Furthermore, Cars 73, 88 and 55 were found to make no attempt to slow down for the wreck and are all awarded Drive-Through Penalties for going full throttle into a yellow flag zone.

Found this on a youtube video

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Session of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 3: Qualifying 1, Qualifying 2, Race): Race
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day): Lap 157 @ 21:44UTC
Car(s) involved: 08, 78, 75
Location of Incident (Track Map Here): Turn 7
Brief Description of Incident: 08 goes up the inside and pushes 75 into the gravel. Because 75 cannot stop in time car 78 is also caught up in this.

It was found that Car #75 did not give Car #08 sufficient room on the apex of the corner to complete the presented overtaking maneuver, which resulted in contact. #75 then returns to the track in a slightly unsafe manner which results in a collision with #78. Car #75 is awarded a Drive-Through Penalty for the initial contact, no penalty for the secondary contact as it was considered that it was very difficult to control the car at high speed on the gravel and #78 hitting #75 was more bad luck than bad judgement.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Session of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 3: Qualifying 1, Qualifying 2, Race): Race
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day): Lap 148 @ 21:19UTC
Car(s) involved: 02, 75
Location of Incident (Track Map Here): Turn 4
Brief Description of Incident: 02 makes a divebomb and then makes contact with 75, half spinning them and causing left rear damage.

Car #2 makes a slightly optimistic overtaking attempt on Car #75 into the hairpin, which results in contact. Warning to Car #02 for avoidable contact. It's a 12 hour race - you don't need to divebomb quite that much yet!