F1 2022 - Round 11: Austria

Might be catching the wrong end of the stick on some comments. The risk-reward of the situation for Perez wasn’t great.

It was a ballsy move but being in the right of an avoidable accident doesn’t win him any championship points.

No overtaking can ever possibly occur if you can't put faith in the other driver to play by the rules and not punt you off as you go by. Russell was 100% in the wrong. They really need to beef up the penalties to fit the crime and that kind of thing would happen less.

Was reading a post elsewhere from someone who was there, the marshal got a call to bring the truck as he was going to the car so had to run back and get it. From what I saw they had the fire put out fairly quick, it was far from a straight forward incident, possible oil ón the track that would send cars in on top of them, a big enough fire and the car rolling away down the hill. Fair play to the lad with the wheel chocks, I doubt it was his first rodeo, he/Sainz got the car against the barrier and got the fire under control. Its easy to criticise from the armchair (not talking about here BTW), some of the posts I've seen from people online are ridiculous.

Indycar probably pays its marshals. F1 doesn't. Carlos could have tried steering lock to wedge the car against the barriers or into the gravel.

Re. being on a slope, I would have thought an immediate solution for driver would be to turn onto the gravel trap?

F1 isn't a local club meet though. There's more than enough money in the sport for professional marshaling, it's not really an acceptable fallback to say they're not paid and it's a thankless job therefore if any situation isn't handled correctly it can just be shrugged off. That attitude will end up with a dead driver sooner or later.

The whole process wasn't good enough and there was a huge time lag in attending to a car that was clearly in flames which the driver was struggling to exit. If they couldn't leave their post because of an active track, the track should have been made inactive quicker. The FIA clearly need to look at it and see what can be improved for next time.

You were the one who basically said they're beyond criticism because they're unpaid volunteers and it's a thankless job.

If being unpaid means they can't be held to high enough standards, then they should be paid.

1. It would be weird to cause themselves 100ks in costs to rebuild, cost them points for the constructors, etc. Maybe it's more likely that it's not a conspiracy.

2. Plenty of memes, and they're free to view you'll be glad to know ;)

More excuses. If F1 aren't paying their marshals then that's on them, they have enough money to spare to have a team of highly trained first responders like lower formula such as Indycar. F1 isn't club racing...

I think you'll find that the marshals did run straight out, but then acted like something from a benny hill sketch.

If you go to your local track you'll find marshals that are paid to be there, for instance at a go kart race you'll find every marshal being paid 100 quid for their day with a free meal included too.

(I've marshalled many an event by the way)

Lol. That made me laugh.

First of all I do not wear hats and second of all the only place I use tinfoil also known as catering film is in the oven when I cook something in the oven.

Has to be a wind up 😂