I was leading a 15 laps race at BL GP, and I didn't notice that a pit stop was required. As I was on the back straight in the 15th lap, I got a 30 seconds penalty for late pitting. So I went into the pits on the last lap. When I stopped in the first pit box (before the finish line, then), I was given a stop and go penalty for late pitting. When my pit stop was done I left the pit box, and when I passed the finish line, I was disqualified.

I can understand the 30 seconds penalty, but I should have got it at least one lap earlier, so I had a chance to make a pit stop before the end of the race.

The stop and go I don't understand it. I already had a penalty for half a lap, so why adding a stop and go to it, and why adding it when I make my pit stop?

And finally I don't understand the disqualification either, since I made my required pit stop before I passed the finish line (I guess I got it because I didn't make the stop & go I just got, but how could I have?).

mpr available if necessary.

It's like that because the people who do it on purpose wouldn't get away with it.

I don't believe it. If this was the case a simple disqualification would suffice.

Do you have the replay, tbh it sounds to me like you where caught speeding in the pits to get the stop/go - but it should have given you a time penalty for that given you had no time to serve the penalty - perhaps LFS got confused because you where already serving a penalty when you where caught speeding?

That's my best guess anyway.

Thanks for your reply, Becky. That's what I first thought, but I triple-checked the replay and it doesn't show me breaking the speed limit. Also the message displayed when I got the second penalty was also saying "... for late pitting". So I really think it's a bug.

I'm at work at the moment, but I'll post the replay this evening.

FL!P is right, I've noticed the same thing happening. Not pitting before the last lap makes 30 seconds penalty, then you get s-n-g and dq.

Here's the mpr.