ROUND 23: 🇶🇦 Qatar
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS QATAR GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Lusail International Circuit
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 57
- Circuit Length: 5.419 km
- Race Distance: 308.611 km
- Lap record: 1:24.319 Max Verstappen (2023)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
The commentary being salty about British drivers being punished is so delicious. They complain it’s inconsistent but honestly it’s the first time I think British drivers are being punished to the same degree as others have always been.
I have no problem with the safety ones being penalised like that, they are really lax with it most of the time.
The problem is that because the stewards change all the time their harshness keeps changing.
For the stop go - as long as everyone else gets checked and similarly penalised then it’s fine. Norris SHOULD have lifted, if even a token lift.
I do agree that with changing stewards it’s stupid. But when you look at how Norris went unpunished for literally creating an extremely unsafe situation after the aborted start it’s high time they start giving out harsher penalties. And I’m undoubtedly biased myself but it’s always British drivers who get away with that bullshit it seems.
Might just be that there are loads of British drivers on the grid ATM.