u/Voice_Calm

I believe the absolute worst decision they've made is to lower the first year cost cap by ±$30m due to the covid pandemic.

All teams are struggling with the budget cap, upgrades can't be produced due to costs and development as a whole is almost impossible during the season.

This is not Formula 1... This is insanity.

Teams deliver the books, the firms make sure everything is as it's supposed to be.

What's the problem here exactly?

Employees who are suffering from illnesses or are sick maintain their work and pay. They don't contribute during the sickness so having those costs excluded guarantees their job and does not encourage teams to let go those on sick leave to save on costs.

All teams use accountants for their final reports. No team will send of an in house report to the FIA without it being checked an signed off by the accounting firm.

EY had to verify the budgets before signing them off to the FIA, it's not just team RB.

The budgets RB submitted were under the cap.

Would be something if they had given employees a WDC bonus that caused them to exceed the budget cap thinking they're safe.

Can't have Deloitte make the books for one or more teams and be responsible for the verification process.

Netflix?

The state of Formula 1 fans is worse by the looks of it.

In the hands of Verstappen he is indeed faster than Ferrari. That doesn't mean the Red Bull is faster than Ferrari, just that Max is faster.

Looking at tyre degradation and the difference in wear post race speaks for itself.

Leclerc did all he could, made a minor mistake at the end attempting to hold perez behind on worse tyres.

I genuinely believe that the last thing Formula 1 needs right now and especially the community is armchair experts attempting to improve incredibly delicated and complicated regulations.

I have no issue with full points awarded at half distance. You can't control mother nature and incidents on track. If every effort is made to race and for example 50% is completed due to time limitations then full points should be possible.

The FIA would indeed need to go through the regulations and make sure everything is still up-to-date.

There are countless articles that haven't been changed in decades and could possibly contradict each other.

Apart from that, the situation on track is constantly evolving and cannot be made bulletproof. There are hundreds of humans involved and that's exactly why as OP said glitches occur. We aren't perfect.

It's impossible to accurately accommodate every situation in the regulations. Every incident has variations and rarely require the exact same execution.

And he got a reprimand for it didn't he?

If we take a look at the 2017 Singapore GP that actually hit the 2 hour timer Hamilton had a race time of 2:03:23.544

Actually no, Spa 21 would've been a no points race. There's a requirement that atleast 2 laps have to be completed without a VSC or SC.

Spa had no laps of racing, just some parade laps.

I stand corrected, Pérez's official race time was 1:56:30.265

Thanks.

I believe so yes. Perez was flagged after the two hour race timer ended, not the 3 hour timer.

Yeah, they can decide whether conditions allow for the race to be restarted or remains suspended.

IT'S THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO.

The race director is a neutral party.

If you have no idea what either the race director or Race Control do then why on earth are you making assumptions?

You're making bold statements regarding something you've admitted to know very little about.

And what exactly is the purpose of the race director and Race Control?

Old habits die hard.

No, he can't.

If a race is suspended and not resumed partial points will be awarded based on amount of laps completed. If a race is suspended but completed under racing conditions then full points are awarded.

A F1 race is time limited to 2 hours of racing and/or 3 hours from the start if it's suspended at any moment.

Broadcasters and commentators are themselves responsible for what happened today.

The rules were changed for 2022 yet they interpreted the situation with the 2021 regulations. That's not on the FIA / FOM.