The Rules of Racing

[angrymoby]

Useful little article (not sure if it's been posted before?) that i found a while ago that gives a quick run down of some the actual sporting rules & regs ...& what is deemed acceptable on a race track

https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-rul...

[S0 What]

There's more than a few posters in here who should read that !
Although a i think most will ignor it and the few will take it appart read it wronge on pupose and continue with the cr@P they spout in every race thread but i thank you sir

[SeeFive]

Do you know what this is?

It is an interpretation of a mathematician / statistician who whilst being a fan of F1, has absolutely no first hand racing credentials at all in the "about" page. It could have been written by a commited F1 fan who is a road sweeper or similar and carry as much official weight with me.

So, in short, to two very different racers (let's say a Prost and Senna, or Hamilton and Button) it may be right in places, wrong in places, or right or wrong everywhere. To two different stewards it could appear over-simplified too.

But all it is really is a pile of text expressing a non-professional opinion of the rule book, which is just as valid as anyone else's polar opinions on here and is by no means an authority piece. I doubt than an authority piece can be written to cover an interpretation of all potential situations and outcomes. The rules are applied by the stewards, and not mathematicians.

And we debate on and on about their interpretations, but that in the end is where the decision is made, and we can just express our appreciation or disapproval accordingly afterwards.

[Mr_Thyroid]

I think it's a quite a good piece. Nothing controversial. I'd rather a mathematician's dispassionate view than a racer's. A racer wouldn't be able to do it:

"Which car am I in?"
"Neither"
"How am I supposed to know who's in the right then?"