🤔 The SILLY F1 loophole Red Bull exposed

Sergio Perez's nightmare Japanese Grand Prix took a bizarre twist when he was sent back out into the race after retiring so he could remove the risk of an unserved time penalty becoming a grid penalty for the next race

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[rishibadbaria]

People forgot how Schumacher won the race in pit lane while serving penalty

[CurboroughSprinter]

The only outrage anyone could possibly have would be against the FIA for not being reasonable and just saying they won’t impose a grid penalty. Not doing so puts a car with no intention of finishing out on track and that unnecessarily adds danger, no matter how slight. Rule makers need to engage their brains a bit. RB did exactly what anyone would have.

[eternal_trashero]

People forget how common this was in the 80s and 90s when driver in top teams would come in get the spare car come out a lap down and still get in the points.

[eternal_trashero]

It was also extremely common play in the 80s and 90s for backmarkers to be lapped 9+ times.

[djdrastic]

If we can be real for a second, this 5s penalty for ruining someone's car or punting them off the track is some real bullsh1te though.

[lukavujeva]

Smart from Red Bull, this way they ensured he won’t start p20 in the next race as p15 in qualifying is his golden standard.

[CJGZW]

"Left many fans outraged". You sure about that?

[ricardopetrere]

Well, that was just smart thinking from Red Bull, nothing wrong with that. Trying to change the regulation would make it even worse, more loopholes would occur.

Let it be, and props to RB

[kungfusing]

Perez was driving so weird in this race. He looked like he was intentionally driving terribly.

[djdrastic]

Don't really see the big deal about it
They stuck to the letter of the laws.

[mudgie]

Don't blame the player. Blame the game or those who create the rules.

Red Bull should be applauded for finding the loophole.

[maybeharold]

Im not complaining about how rb followed the rules to send perez back out, im complaining about how Perez was looking like a drunk driver hitting people left and right.

[launchsquid]

there's no "quirk" in the regulations. Nothing says you can't rejoin the race, nothing says you can't serve a penalty in last place.
What's the difference between this and a driver getting a 5 second penalty and opening a gap of over 5 seconds?
What's the difference between this and the driver in last place finishing the race and have 5 seconds added to his time?
People that are upset are just admitting their ignorance of the rules.

[dutchdude]

Important detail here, all of this was done in agreement with FIA officials as it was going on. They changed the regulations afterward but knew and agreed to this as it went on.

[polarpenguin]

The rule should be, if the car leaves the track or pit lane (i.e. gets wheels into the garage) then it shouldn't be allowed back out. The rules should also be that penalties accumulated during a race can't be migrated to the next.

[juggernaut]

This is on the FIA for delaying in issuing the penalty. If it was issued timely, Perez would've served it before retiring the car.

[charles]

We used to do shit like this at C1 races it says that during the race you cant pit until lap 15 but the race started as lap 1 started so we would get rid of one of the minimum pit stops at lap 0

[ratuldeoun]

The thing I hate about loopholes is that when the FIA finds out a team is doing that, then they make it banned the following season 😪

[EvLSpectre]

This has been done before. Not just when spare cars were taken out a lap down.

[cryptout]

Nobody was outraged, just surprised 😮