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Feels like it must have been a result of a miscalibrated sensor or something, I simply cannot believe so many different teams all got drunk and screwed up their pitlane speed limiters. When one team gets hit by this then they screwed up their settings on the car. But this? Has to be a sensor surely.
Regardless though, it was some absolute comedy to spice up the procession so... I'll take it, I guess?
Itโs because they cut too much of the corners at the entry and exit. The FIA doesnโt look at speed like how a cop measures a speeding car. They measure the time between two timing beams and divide the distance of those beams by the time to get the speed. If a driver has driven less meters between those two timing beams than what the FIA has decided how far they are apart, like when they cut corners, they basically drove faster even when they were below the limit on their speedometer. Since they reached the next timing beam faster.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/explained-why-are-there-pit-lane-speed-limits-in-f1-and-how-are-they-measured.jc4jiWVsfbRhb62QomSf0
Makes sense.
Yeah it seems weird that so many teams would make the same mistake. Maybe it was just those that cut the entry/exit really aggressively got caught by it.
Is it beyond the FIA to create drama for viewership?
Wouldn't that be the job of F1 (i.e. liberty media) rather than the FIA?
The fia definitely pull some BS changes for viewership
Absolutely not, as evidenced by the enforced two-stop in Monaco last year (although that didn't exactly work out to produce any good viewing).
This, however, ended up looking more like a farce for FIA than anything so I seriously doubt it was intentional.
Sure got us talking about F1, some free marketing? Who knows lol
True, but this one would leave a very dark stain (admittedly on an already filthy reputation) if it got out that they were playing games.