F1 Boat race ?

[Estrella]

Bizarre happenings in Malaysia, although you would expect the British drivers to be comfortable with the conditions.

It looks like the race will restart under the safety car so that they can complete 75% of the race and therefore recieve their full points allocation.

Safety is obviously of paramount concern, but why are they restarting a race when there is little to no chance of a normal finish?

 

[Estrella]

Oh, and I still can't stand the DC/Jordan/ new bloke commentary team. If the BBC pinched Brundle, why couldn't they have poached the rest of the ITV commentary team

 

[conny]

Right decision to stop the race under the circumstances though why did they take so long?
Its a high speed event yet they take forever to make decisions!

 

[Estrella]

Apparently the took time to track back to last complete lap when Jens was in the lead, which turned out to be lap 31. Bit bizarre as you say.

 

[NS215]

not bizarre at all, all motorsports run to that rule if a race is stopped they go back a full lap to determine the race result
An F1 race can only run for 2 hrs plus one lap to decide the result
So the big pity is that Jenson only got half points when he would have most likely have won the race and got the full 10 points
Bring on the brits AWESOME

 

[Estrella]

What I found bizarre was how long it took them to work it out! With all the technology at their disposal it should have been a lot quicker.

 

[Bendo]

An F1 race can only run for 2 hrs plus one lap to decide the result

Not true, in the event of a red flag, the suspended period is added to the 2 hours. Just a shame noone at the BBC seemed to know the rules. Was all pretty meaningless due to the stupidly late start though that meant it was too dark to continue the race when the conditions improved.

 

[NS215]

Martin Brundle seemed quite adamant that the race clock keeps running even under the red flags and as an ex driver that will do for me

 

[Bendo]

The race clocks do indeed keep running, per article 41, however any suspended period is added on to the 2 hours, per article 5.3

5.3 The distance of all races, from the start signal referred to in Article 38.9 to the chequered flag, shall be
equal to the least number of complete laps which exceed a distance of 305 km (Monaco 260km). However,
should two hours elapse before the scheduled race distance is completed, the leader will be shown the
chequered flag when he crosses the control line (the Line) at the end of the lap during which the two hour
period ended. However, should the race be suspended (see Article 41) the length of the suspension will be
added to this period.

The 2007 European GP lasted 2 hours 6 mins.

And Mr Brundle has since accepted he is wrong - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984586.stm

Poor form though given how long he had to read the rules on the day and he got it right in 2007 :

 

[NS215]

fair play

Bendo for the BBC I say