Sentences with phrase «safety car restart»

They were running in P4 and P5 again when the two collided at Turn 2 following a Safety Car restart in Baku, an incident which Perez — who retired later in the race due to the damage caused — called «unacceptable».

Yet Magnussen received a 5 - second penalty, while Carlos Sainz did not despite being investigated for a similarly robust move on Fernando Alonso after the safety car restart.

At one point there was even a bizarre incident when Baird spun Whincup off before a safety car restart!

However all hopes went out the window after the second safety car restart when Esteban Ocon passed his teammate into turn two, only for the pair of them clash on the exit.

During the opening race of the Paul Ricard round, Shwartzman was closing down leader Fenestraz as they entered the tight and twisty chicane, after a safety car restart.

In fact, he'd done exactly the same thing he had at the first safety car restart.

We've started to look at the safety car restart procedures, different grid formations for the start - things like that can very easily translate from F2 to F1.»

All the action at the safety car restarts caused the circuit to be littered with debris and forced the safety car to be deployed for a third time, which eventually became a red flag on just lap 22.

Not exact matches

The race was then restarted, but only for one lap behind the safety car, at which point the chequered flag was thrown and Shane van Gisbergen controversially declared the winner, despite only one lap being completed under full racing conditions.

It appears to have taken place during the safety car, just before the restart as drivers were warming up their tyres (and Valtteri Bottas dropped his Mercedes) after the switch to dries.

The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.

The restart was rather frantic and among all the battles more debris went on the track, forcing a second safety car period.

Alongside this, restarts after safety car periods will now be double - formation, which could get very interesting indeed...

Viewers were left shocked in Singapore when the race restarted after a safety car and there was still a frickin» marshal on the track as the cars charged towards turn one.

It's a pretty common rule across motorsport that when restarting a race after a safety car period, drivers shouldn't suddenly speed up and then slow down again.

Since it's a safety item that reduces accidents, some automakers (the majority) revert to LDW - on when you restart the car.

However, a Safety Car intervention followed the first round of pit stops and brought Gavin to within striking distance of first position, six seconds splitting the British ace and Nicki Thim in the class - leading # 95 Aston Martin at the restart.