Upon review, Piastri was only up to the front of Antonelli's sidepods, which I mean is a solid 10cm behind the mirrors, so I mean that checks.
...God this is stupid. "If person is moving to beat you on the brakes, you must leave room" should NOT be hard.
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Piastri claws 9 seconds of that back during the second stint. So despite the best efforts of his pit wall he nearly overcame their bullshit!
Subtract the 10 seconds lost via penalty and 10 seconds lost via strategy and Piastri net wins by 5 seconds today.
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I mean, to remind everyone, they asked him to pull over because of a time they let him overtake last season.
LAST FUCKING SEASON.
Ugh. Fuck. Aussies in line to claim the title are apparently just cursed. #F1 #SPGP

...And I'll just keep to myself about the incident penalty because 1) I have no idea wtf the overtaking rules are anymore, and 2) it's clear the stewards have no idea wtf they are either.
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They originally cut down practice time in 2020 to reduce all track activity and to make travel work during covid and then just didn't restore it. Instead they were like "yeah that RNG made it awesome!"
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Free practice is kinda boring, but it has a purpose! Until semi-recently we had 4 hours of practice per weekend, and the lack of it contributed toward teams not understanding the ground effect cars. It means once you're behind (ie Mercedes) there's no way to make it up.
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I know it all looked fairly straightfoward on the replays, but the odds of 3 different cars in 3 different groups binning at the same corner on the same lap are like... zero. Has that ever happened quite like that? Even 2 would be impressive! Even in maximum wet you get like... 2 at most.
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