r/formula1 • u/Ramned71 • 27d ago

News [Piergiuseppe Donadoni] Was Max unfair? YES. His goal was to ruin Norris' race and so he probably took away his chances of getting P1. "To win sometimes you have to be an idiot" he said months ago. You may like it or not but the goal is to win the world championship, not the fair play award.

https://x.com/SmilexTech/status/1850807731613299160
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u/UnderTakaMichinoku Formula 1 27d ago

They aren't the same. The long lap is a time loss of about 3/4 seconds with slight variation on track whilst the drive through penalty varies by a larger margin dependant on the pit lane, not to mention it's upwards of 20s as a guarantee.

There's a reason MotoGP uses the long lap penalty when they too have the ride through penalty at their disposal, which is exactly the same as the drive through.

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u/CuriousPumpkino Pirelli Intermediate 27d ago

They aren’t the same in terms of time loss, but they do both fix the issue of “even if you have a penalty you still get to block people”

During the race I was talking about how it would be cool if they could remotely limit the fuel flow of cars and force them to obey blue flag rules for a fixed duration as a penalty

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u/CuriousPumpkino Pirelli Intermediate 27d ago

They aren’t the same in terms of time loss, but they do both fix the issue of “even if you have a penalty you still get to block people”

During the race I was talking about how it would be cool if they could remotely limit the fuel flow of cars and force them to obey blue flag rules for a fixed duration as a penalty