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that one was solely to not compromise Rosberg lead, which in fact we were looking forward the SC for him and Hamilton clash for the lead. It was a sign on what was to come and the knee jerk reactions afterwards

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I can't remember the last time I saw a retired car being left on track during the race. And that's a rule that should have come some decades sooner.

I honestly don't remember the last time a car was left at the side of the track, regardless of where. Mags's car was basically at the pit entry, so this made exactly as much sense to me as the Sutil decision did not

I was reading through the 2014 german gp thread, apart from some trolling there were several posts regarding that drivers don't tend to respect double yellows and could had turned that situation sour

interesting that the two incidents in 2014 (hockenheim and suzuka) had Sutil as one of the key players

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I'm probably wrong but maybe Hungary 2011 with Heidfeld's car just burning down at the end of the start/finish?

I couldn't find it on youtube so maybe i have the details off, but i remember an indycar crash, i think at one of the canadian street tracks in the mid 90's, where Mario Andretti pulled out to make a pass and plowed into the rear of a parked car on track. Does anyone else remember this or know what crash I'm talking about?

There's the Andretti crash.

https://twitter.com/basso488/status/1153635873973575680

Exactly what I was thinking of, thank you. I don't remember seeing the interview with Mario there in the pits. He really seems in complete disbelief about the whole crash but probably most of all that he just walked away completely unharmed.

Pretty sure that removing the cars from the side of the track rule has been gradually being enforced since Charlie Whiting took over and reinforced since Bianchi's death.

I remember seeing cars being left trackside at least as recently as the early 90s, but after this they at least tried to keep them only in places where another car was unlikely to end up.

As Lucas said above, Charlie was actually interviewed about that and said he didn't think a SC was fair at that point because Lewis had the better tyres and the SC would ruin the gap that Rosberg had built up

So there you have it Marshals, your lives mean nothing compared to the time gap built up by millionare Formula 1 drivers, head out onto a live race track and get pushing. If the drivers don't slow down, we'll still do nothing about it and if one of them spins and hits you we might think about doing something about it in 2 years. But punish those drivers for not slowing down? NEVER!
Now chop chop, get on track and if you're lucky you'll get a free lunch out of it.

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