Cheeky Devlin wrote:Robbo-92 wrote:Caught up on the sprint qualifying, it’s amazing how much of a fun leveller the rain is
How the heck did Lando get his lap time (rightly) deleted, only for them to go “hahahahahah just kidding” and then put him back on pole? Going off the track there should invalidate his next lap too.
Just watched the C4 highlights and that last session was crazy. I was cackling away to myself everytime Max had a lap deleted or went off the track.
Then my boy Lando puts it on pole.
The only thing I can think of is that they looked at it and determined he didn't gain any advantage from it. If anything it probably slowed him down for the next lap.
But that' just a guess.
If you're a stickler for the rules (like I am
) then it doesn't matter if he gained or lost time, going off at corners actively being policed for track limits should be a slap bang deletion for that lap, or that lap and the following lap if it is going onto the pit straight like Lando's lap was. If it was Verstappen who went wide (I think he did in fact go wide and had a time deleted?) at that corner, had his lap time deleted before having it subsequently reinstated, people would be go crazy over enforcing the rules properly. I can't help but shake the feeling with what we've seen in the fairly recent past, that they realised a Lando pole, with 3 WDC behind him makes the sprint potentially the most exciting action we've seen so far, as the McLaren is actually a quick car, the Aston and Mercedes aren't awful in the dry, but the McLaren is generally the better car in the race out of those 3.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see Lando on pole, hopefully the combo of Alonso and Hamilton can hold Verstappen up enough in the first couple of laps, that Lando can get a few seconds down the road and win something in F1, even if its just a sprint to start with. I still think if it's dry, Verstappen will ease his way through though
I'll still probably get up to watch it though, won't be able to watch the GP live on Sunday, so may as well try and watch some of the weekend live.