revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Oh, I totally get that.

I wasn't paying enough attention generally (I used to half watch back in the day and look up when Murray Walker got all excited, watch the exciting bit and go back to doing stuff and listening - kinda did that today, but it wasn't the same!!), just suddenly the french commentators were hollering like mad men - they'd not been that excited over any of the overtakes or incidents, it was just weird. Had they been effusive generally, I'd have got it. But to be so laid back and then get that excited/upset in the last lap (even though it was a safety car), I was just surprised.

Should know better, haven't met many French men that are particularly effusive, so I suppose that's my error thinking they should have been like that for the incidents/overtakes!!

I didn't "get" all the words in the shouting - why didn't the safety car pull in? Was the crashed car still on the gravel on the corner?

Apparently the notification that the safety car was going to pull in was a software error.
Theres a rule that the safety car has to do one extra lap after the backmarkers have been cleared, which is why it stayed out for the last lap.

Not the best way to end it, but the safety rules are there for (mostly) pretty good reasons.

@Noggin I imagine the French commentary got excited because Leclerc won?

Did Verstappen blame British quarry workers for the gravel?

He was jolly cross about his rear wing failing to close (again). The disgusted toss of the steering "wheel" out of the car and the stomp across the gravel was top temper tantrum.