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Hans being disqualified from a race he couldn’t finish because he was never qualified to be in said race to begin with is the funniest trifecta I have ever heard of in any sport.
I love how long it took. Like for the spare car, surely the moment they try to jump in the car, you black flag em. Ya know, when they're stationary, not in the race, and in clear violation of the rules.
Spare car is for situation when driver will crash f.ex. during qualification session, so team can be sure they will have a car in a race. Driver can swap car until the end of formation lap. Theoritically, when you crash during formation lap and somehow manage to get into 2nd car before end of formation lap, so you can park in your grid position or ready in pits then you are safe. It's illegal to swap car after race starts - that's what Montoya did. Rules are logic. Only thing FiA could do better was to wave blag flag sooner for him. I guess its because they wanted to close an eye on that one, but propably other team protested.
FIA: "But it'll take us literally half the race to disqualify you, even though the only question we have to ask ourselves is 'Did you change cars after the start of the formation lap?' so we could surely do it before the end of the first lap."
@@beeble2003 as I said, propably FIA were willing to let him go away with that. They obviously knew that swap gave no advantage to him bc now, he's starting from last position. I think, when he started to gain positions, other teams concerned went with black flag idea to race officials. Bc they could make a use of that rule. That's why, under pressure they disqualified him so late in a race. But its just plausible theory.
Not defending it because it was a clear case of incompetence but that was the same race as Ralf Schumacher's crash on lap 9 which put him out for 3 months which might have distracted the stewards for a long time but it's still pretty unforgivable to take 57 laps to disqualify Montoya.
Steward 1. “He’s clearly gone and got into his spare car before the race has started” Steward 2. “Yep that’s a definite disqualification, I’ll go get the black flag” Steward 1. “Nah, let him do half the race before we show him the black flag” Steward 2. “Haha yeah, that’ll be hilarious”
@@paulypaul111 That’s not always the case and nowadays they wait for confirmation of the VAR, otherwise they can potentially stop a goal, because they thought the player was offside while he wasn’t
@@paulypaul111 hi, I've been attending and watching all football matches for 55 years and I can never ever remember a lines waiting 10 seconds to hold up is flag for off side....
Steward 1: "Yo how mad do you think Senna will be if we hit him with the black flag halfway through the race?" Steward 2: "At his home GP??? He'll be steaming!!!" Steward 1: "I forgot that part, it'll be even better then!”
This video does make it seem like car-swapping isn't clearly explained to the drivers or teams. Why let people do something that is going to get them DQ'd?
Drive the spare car : black flag Get in the spare car : black flag Touch the spare car : black flag Seeing the spare car : black flag Thinking about the spare car : black flag Sp... Black flag This comment : black flag
@@huzi5564 yeah, now that it's 2021. But the last few years the Williams was pretty much dominating those spots. Only exception was Russel dragging it up a few places
@@amalajay5989 Australia 2009, because he passed Trulli under safety car conditions, and he and the team lied to the stewards by saying that Trulli passed Hamilton by himself.
I like that they don't even attempt to explain why they waited *57 laps* before DSQ Montoya. If it takes you that long to figure out if a guy should be penalized, you shouldn't be giving him one.
Stewards at the German Grand Prix 1977: “Ok, car number 35 seems to have had a problem. He’s retiring from the race.” “Alright, who was number 35 again?” “Pretty sure it was Hans He-...” “...” “...wait a minute”
@@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT Here you have it ladies and gentlemen, proof that memory gets skewed the older you get and that you can't trust it. ''Everything was better before blahblah''
This video can be summed up as: Racer disqualified but wipes out before even noticing or Guy brings spare, uses spare, gets disqualified for using said spare
@@Catcrumbs Japan 89 was Senna's fault. and the way he deliberately took out Prost in Japan 1990 after indirectly stating he was gonna do it before the race was disgusting. all because stewards didnt accept changing his pole position spot on the grid to the clean side of the track
He didn't see the black flag because he was fighting Senna. And Senna himself didn't see the black flag; if he had, he would have let Mansell pass him without a fight.
@@SmolWeeblet you seem to know more than the officials there, only if you were there before Senna recovered to second place after a very long time or Montoya after 57 laps fighting for podium. If Schumy gets a black flag, only a week later after he's been on the podium.
@@nsabotage1217 yeah it’s redicilous that they took so long to give them a black flag but it doesn’t change the fact in my comment because I never said that the stewards responded like they should’ve responded. And Schumacher DSQ took so long because Benneton were fighting it.
I can't tell why but I know the right way to use the spare car is when the race is red flagged, in this situation if you had a problem with you car you can go to the t car
I can’t believe JPM’s black flag, it literally took 57 laps for the stewards to say “Oh you’re disqualified by the way...” Edit: It really took the FIA two weeks to tell Michael, “You were blackflagged.” They let him stand on the podium and no one said a word until two weeks later?
@@CrashXII And then they decided to give him a two race ban. Everything was so bad that year, like when they increased Irvine's one race ban to three because the team appealed the decision
@@CristianVillalobos I think that they simply wanted to make an example to the teams saying "we´re the boss here not you" which then backfired during the season finale
So Hans Heyer managed a DNQ, DNF and DSQ all in the same race. Surely one of F1's greatest stats! Right up there with the legend of Markus Winkelhock in my book lol.
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@@StarkRaven59 and in nascar, there's multiple former champions that have a ton of them. Just take Kyle Busch for example. He was given 1 lap penalty (stay in your pit until the leader has passed, putting you one lap down), then proceeded to flip off the official for the entire duration of that penalty. Which earned him another 2 lap penalty that he ignored, getting himself DQ'd
Im surprised F1 media would put this out when so many of these are "Race control illegally allowed a race car on the track, only to later realize it and pulling them out".
Question: Al Pease's car was clearly painfully slow but in all seriousness, How was his car that slow? What lap times did it clock compared to the leaders? I mean there's driving a slow car then there's driving a car so slow you're 24 laps behind the leaders
F1 cars were different back in the day. Even in the 90s there were teams routinely 10-15 secs off the pace in qualifying and didn't even "pre qualify".
I know this is an old comment, but the story is quite amazing. Back in the 1960s anyone could show up to an F1 race and attempt to qualify provided they had working machinery. On the 1967 race, where Pease ended up finishing 43 laps down, his sponsor Castrol argued against letting him use his Lotus and instead bought an old car from Dan Gurney. The race was in monsoon conditions and, halfway through the race, the battery in his car (at that point completely filled with water) died. And since he was very much just a privateer and no real team to depend on other than a rag-tag assembly of mechanics, Al decided to leave his car on one side of Mosport, run all the way to his garage, gather a new battery, run back to his car, install it on his own, and get going. You can imagine how much time this took, but that goes to show you how much determination the man had. It's important to note that Al played a key part in designing the very circuit he was racing in. In the end he clocked an average speed of 69 km/h, but as you can see that doesn't tell the whole story. Funnily enough, after the race, Castrol took the car back and put it on display (therefore Pease himself, 47 years old at the time, had no access to it and could not test it in any capacity), only to give it back to him come the 1969 race! You can imagine the state of the machinery at that point, although he somehow managed to qualify ahead of a couple of drivers, you can imagine the problems that would plague the car. Add to that that Pease purposefully drove furthest from the racing line as he could, conscious of how off-the-pace he was, and there you have it. That's the story of Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee Al Pease!
I remember James Hunt's commentary re Nigel's: 'Mansell was unfortunate in actually FINDING reverse gear, as it's often left out of the gearbox for weight purposes!'
In the first practice session for the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix both Haas drivers (Grosjean and Magnussen) were black flagged. The team was suffering radio issues and was unable to call their drivers in to pit. They asked race control to show them the black flag so they would pit and the team could fix the issue.
3:42 Always love the seating position of the driver in the 80s. You've got a clear view of the track. Yep, a clear view and also the most dangerous position when something bad happen
Fun Fact:At the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix,Both HAAS Cars's Radio Wasnt Working,So they told Pitwall to Black-Flag Both Cars so both Drivers could came back to the Pits
Chapman a real legend.I have see drivers talking about him with such respect.He always watched the drivers (and payment was way better than other teams)
Apparently Will Buxton found out at Portimao last year they don't show the black flag during racing and that drivers will only be disqualified after the race because under the FIA ISC it is deemed fairer to let teams and drivers present the case in front of the stewards before a potential DSQ is handed out
Because they cant un black flag someone if it turns out theyre wrong because you cant rejoin the race after 50 laps are gone so when the team inevitably protests the decision rather than unfairly disqualify them and then the team proves u shouldnt have disqualified them they wait until theyre 100% sure. It seems obvious but theres a lot of fine print and details in the rules that might make it complicated
someone else mentioned however that he was told by the team to stay out while they argued with the stewards. Doens't seem very clear cut who was in the fault here
Michael Schumacher defeated some of his teammates and lost to Nelson, who lost to Cesaris at 91, but Brandle approached slightly. And the outstanding driver is Michael Schumacher.
@@elifkara2168 How and when did he lose to Nelson? He outqualified him 5 times out of 6 despite joining F1 in the middle of the season and with no experience.
