A monetary fine doesn’t seem fitting for an attempt to sabotage a competitor’s race/race start.
A monetary fine doesn’t seem fitting for an attempt to sabotage a competitor’s race/race start.
You didn’t read the article. It outright says that McLaren has placed the marker on an unregulated area which means that other fiddling with it is also unregulated.
The fine wasn’t for fiddling with the marker, it was for attempting it after the gate closed.
Everybody does everything to direct competitors that’s not outright prohibited. See also when Mercedes and Red Bull put a mechanic in the pit box, so that the competitor’s cars have to drive around him and not cross the markings. I’ve read that Mercedes started that but I didn’t verify myself.
We also don’t know if McLaren did anything to RBR leading up to this.
We also don’t know if McLaren did anything to RBR leading up to this.
Considering that apparently RB have been doing this since quite some time and McLaren reacted with stronger adhesive, I’m sure there is all kinds of shenanigans from everybody we don’t even hear about.
Maybe Norris just need to learn to stop in his box lol
They got the fine because a team member didn’t follow the orders of a marshal, not because they fiddled with the marker.
After the formation lap had started on Sunday, a Red Bull team member re-entered this gate well area as the pit marshals started to close the gate and did not react when they tried to stop him.
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There is nothing wrong with McLaren using tape or a visual marker on the wall at the side of the track as it is not governed by any regulation around the start procedure or the use of the grid box.
That also means it is not protected by the rules so another team interfering with it once it is there is legal, although whether it is in the spirit of competition would be open to interpretation.
would it not make more sense for them to just add more tape instead? Good to know about all this background fuckery that goes on.
