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Apart from having to salvage the crashed Ferrari and Alex Albon’s broken Williams, the rain had picked up, everyone was on track and rivers were flowing across the track.īut it was not right – regardless of whether the regulations allow it – to bring a recovery vehicle onto the track with cars still on it, even if their speed was very strictly controlled by the safety car past the accident. It was the right call to mark it with a red flag. He kept pushing to reach the end of the safety car queue when the red flag was shown. The rain was picking up so he had rain pants put on. The Sainz incident led to a remarkably frightening sequence as Pierre Gasly collected part of the safety gate and drove back to the pits to have it removed as the race came under the safety car. Lewis Hamilton passed at around 150 mph without realizing the Ferrari was even there.

Flashing lights suddenly appeared out of the spray, somewhere ahead corners at 160 mph.Ĭarlos Sainz aquaplaned out of fourth place on the first lap, hit the barriers at Turn 12 and sat tensely, hoping not to get side hit.

#Mark hughes f1 full#

Otherwise, if the current regulations were followed consistently, a three-lap race would receive full points as long as it hits the mark…īut it all meant absolutely nothing, just procedural accounting while 20 people were out there giving their all in the frightening Suzuka visibility. This is absolutely not the intent of this regulation, which is now acknowledged to have been incompletely written last year and is to be revised to reflect the intent.

Therefore, according to the written regulations, race officials had no choice but to award full points and as such Verstappen was champion after Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari was penalized with a five second penalty from second place for leaving the track and the chicane had given him an advantage in his final lap clash with Sergio Perez’s other Red Bull.

Not what happens when a limited time race like this comes to the checkered flag. Yes it was true The regulations as written only specify what happens if a red flag race is not run the full distance.