Whiting defends FIA jump start system
Jul.11 - Charlie Whiting says there is nothing wrong with F1's jump start system.
Video evidence showed Valtteri Bottas' front wheels were moving before the five lights went out in Austria, and Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo were convinced that the Mercedes driver indeed jumped the start.
But F1 steward Mika Salo said there is some tolerance in the system, explaining to the Finnish press that the decision to not penalise Bottas was based solely on "the data".
"If it had been a jump start, the sensor would have gone off. But it did not, so it's pointless to discuss it," said Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda.
F1 race director Charlie Whiting also defended the FIA's system.
"We have been using it for 20 years and it has not failed a single time in either direction," he told Auto Motor und Sport.
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If you continue with your cavalier approach with all the decisions, which are to the benefit of Mercedes and Red Bull, all other fans will be at the stage I have reached, and most of my friends are approaching the same decision to I.E. stop following. A few examples. The qualifying timing results in thou of a second,who are we kidding,these are fractions even children won"t believe because for accuracy time has resorted to atomic clock , to maintain accuracy, Hamilton breaking abruptly on the corner, and Vettel penalised, and all the other shennagins, bunching up traffic, going at a crawl Verstappen getting away with endangering drivers lives until he causes serious injury or death to some poor unfortunate, is it any wonder you are loosing your audience? With your wonderful ability to calculate fractions of a second, it should be no problem to calculate results after a safety car, relative to actual earned position.
Qualifing each car has two runs , without any other traffic on track, called being sporting, level playing field. Could go on but I know this will be water on a duck"s back.
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