Race #01, Bahrain: Post-Race Checks

Mikko Puumalainen · Apr 6, 2011

The appeal deadline is Friday, April 8th @ 12:30 GMT.

Note: you'll notice that I've forgiven 2 off-track moments in Q1. I'd suggest for the drivers to abort these type of laps in the future.

Bono Huis

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 28
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

David Greco

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 27
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Jaakko Mikkonen

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 28
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Rasmus Tali

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 28
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Mikko Puumalainen

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 25
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Atze Kerkhof

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 25
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Lee Morris

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 28
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Blair Disley

Q1: Clean
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 26
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Morgan Morand

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 26
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

John-Eric Saxen

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 27
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Rudy Van Buren

Q1: Off-track T13 Exit
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 28
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: No penalty. While the driver only lost a marginal amount of time, it was their first race in FSR and the rules were released quite late.

Jim Parisis

Q1: Clean
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Started from the pitlane
Pitstop: Lap 27
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Patrick De Wit

Q1: Clean
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 19, 39
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Lukas Euler

Q1: Clean
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 17, 39
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Allar Foht

Q1: Off-track between T11-T12
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: Lap 27
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: No penalty because the driver clearly lost time in the qualifying incident.

Agustin Canapino

Q1: Clean
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: N/A
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Wayne White

Q1: Clean
Q2: N/A
Log: Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: N/A
GPCOS: Missing
Penalty: No GPCOS comment (no warning or penalty since it's the first race).

Fredrik Nilsson

Q1: Clean
Q2: Clean
Log: .tmp log, Clean
Launch Control: Used
Pitstop: N/A
GPCOS: Ok
Penalty: N/A

Incidents:

#1

Driver(s) Involved: Jaakko Mikkonen, David Greco

Lap/Replay Time: End of lap 29/Start of lap 30, server replay time : between 47:55 and 48:07

Protest Description: Jaakko Mikkonen changed his racing line two times with David Greco behind him, the second one specially dangerous because David had already started his overtaking manouver.

Review: Greco is in the slipstream of Mikkonen on the main straight. Mikkonen changes his line more than once in a Weaving fashion.

Verdict: Read incident #2 verdict.

#2

Driver(s) Involved: David Greco, Jaakko Mikkonen

Lap/Replay Time: 48:10, lap 30

Protest Description: Exiting turn 1 Greco accelerates hard, using the whole track, despite having Mikkonen on his left side. Greco pushes Mikkonen off the track, gains the position and hence breaks the point 7.1 of FSR Online Rules Supplement.

Review: Greco and Mikkonen are side by side in to T1. Mikkonen is on the outside, but Greco does not give room and forces Mikkonen to back off after having contact.

Verdict: While Greco's manouver was more dangerous than Mikkonen's, both drivers disadvantaged eachother a nearly equal amount. Since the drivers involved only disadvantaged eachother and in the end, the result was the same whether neither incident had occured, it is the decision of the Race Director that this is a Racing Incident.

David Greco · Apr 6, 2011

of course, mine was more dangerous at 90kmh, against 280kmh manouver and in close proximity of a wall! Of course makes sense, I can accept that it is a racing incident, and we only protested because PM protested us, but to say that mine was more dangerous, this is far from acceptable.
Said so, see you all in my mirror at Melbourne!

David Greco · Apr 6, 2011

I don't need to check facts knowing how you deal with stuff Ondrej, and knowing you for so many years know, I think I know things before hand.
Difference between me and you, I try to win races on track, sadly I don't win as much as I used to, maybe people got faster than me, but once you guys cannot win on track, you try to win on "court" and this is always been the case. This is race, let the track speak, not the judges.
Good luck to you all in Melbourne.