2022 Japanese Grand Prix

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And the umbrellas are up on pit lane.

Lights out in half an hour.
 
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Sainz bins it.

Into the barrier on lap 1. Safety car.
 
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I’m a bit surprised, they don’t let them race in these conditions too often anymore.
 
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That was more incidents in 1 lap then all F1 races I've watched combined.

Also yeah no one can give NASCAR guys bs when F1 drivers just did the same thing.
 
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I'm going to bed, the only reason I was actually watching was because the Phillies game led into it.
 
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aunty dive said:
They’re going to discuss tractors now.
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Situational awareness was pretty poor in this case with cars still being out on track.

That is downright inexcusable, we already lost a driver and the driver who was caught up in the accident that day retired because of what he saw. I guess nothing has been learned until we lose another driver.
 
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kkfan91 said:


Loosely translated I think this means he couldn't have hit a tractor it was a red flag....
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They’re basically saying it’s on Gasly for speeding past a tractor under a red flag which had just come out a second or two before he reached the incident. The whole field has previously passed the tractor behind the safety car, so it was there for quite a while. That’s no excuse. There’s a tractor with no safety lights that’s on a live track in bad conditions and nobody knew about it.
 
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FLRacingFan said:
They’re basically saying it’s on Gasly for speeding past a tractor under a red flag which had just come out a second or two before he reached the incident. The whole field has previously passed the tractor behind the safety car, so it was there for quite a while. That’s no excuse. There’s a tractor with no safety lights that’s on a live track in bad conditions and nobody knew about it.
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This is ain't it man.
 
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FLRacingFan said:
They’re basically saying it’s on Gasly for speeding past a tractor under a red flag which had just come out a second or two before he reached the incident. The whole field has previously passed the tractor behind the safety car, so it was there for quite a while. That’s no excuse. There’s a tractor with no safety lights that’s on a live track in bad conditions and nobody knew about it.
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Red flag aside, it was double yellow before that and he was clearly driving too fast past the incident (tractor or not). Imagine instead of a tractor, marshals were on the track and he lost it where Sainz lost it…
 
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Red flag aside, it was double yellow before that and he was clearly driving too fast past the incident (tractor or not). Imagine instead of a tractor, marshals were on the track and he lost it where Sainz lost it…
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Drivers will run to what they’re allowed to run. Maybe it’s time to drop the safety car delta and implement a true maximum speed under certain conditions. Until then they will make up time where they can.

The drivers in the queue couldn’t even see the tractor at reduced speeds. Can’t have that.
 
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There, just finished getting the race in. Glad I could scroll through the
replay. Congrats to Max but all I got to say is , imo there is never a reason
a tractor should ever be on the track at the same time as race cars until the
whole field has been verified and brought under speed behind the pace car.
Never Ever. Thought us humans learned our lesson but apparently not .
 
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Kiante said:
I guess nothing has been learned until we lose another driver.
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It's always been that way. Things are always "good enough," right up until they aren't. Someone needs to step up and be this generation's Jackie Stewart.

I haven't seen the race and probably won't because my DRV probably did not get all of it. Probably just as well since it doesn't sound like it was very thrilling. I guess that sums up the season, not very thrilling. Early on, LeClerc had a big lead and people were already saying it was over. Once Red Bull worked out it's reliability though, no one could touch them. I don't believe once Max got rolling, he was even given a battle. There was no question about who was going to be champion. We have not seen this kind of beatdown since the Vettel/Red Bull years.

The championship has been a guaranteed an anti-climax since about Barcelona or so, but the races themselves were not. We had lots of great battles and surprisingly clean racing up and down the field. The season was actually quite good, and hopefully next year Merc will find some speed and Ferrari will hire a decent strategist. The races this year were pretty good, but we really do need a better battle at the front.
 
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