投票:F1是否在黄旗下允许车手刷新排位赛成绩上冒险过大?
F1正在考虑是否允许车手在黄旗状态下继续提升排位赛圈速,这一做法引发争议。本投票旨在收集车迷意见,探讨该规则是否过度冒险。
奥地利大奖赛排位赛最后几秒,马克斯·维斯塔潘在倒数第二个弯的高速入口处过度冒险,失控撞上护栏。
安德烈亚·基米·安东内利看到黄旗挥动,立即做出反应,减速以避免提升圈速并冒被处罚的风险。
但乔治·拉塞尔看到同样的信号却做出了不同的反应。注意到只有单黄旗挥动而非双黄旗,拉塞尔立刻明白他只需暂时减速,如果完成该圈,成绩仍然有效。
拉塞尔对规则的了解得到了回报:他夺得杆位,而他的队友承认自己本应减速后再继续推进。
数周后在匈牙利赛道,面对类似情况,安东内利正是这样做的。这一次,赛会认定他减速不足并予以处罚。
但车手是否应该被允许在黄旗条件下提升圈速?红牛环赛道对维斯塔潘撞车做出单黄旗反应这一事实引发了大量评论:事故发生在高速弯,另一名车手很容易冲出赛道撞上停着的赛车。黄旗本应防止此类事件发生,但如果车手被允许仅仅短暂松油门然后全速恢复,黄旗是否不再发挥其预期作用?
F1可以通过不止一种方式解决这个问题。车手在双黄旗挥动下做出的任何圈速提升都会被自动删除;同样的安排可以引入到单黄旗挥动的情况。或者,可以强制规定排位赛中任何事故都必须使用双黄旗。
无论如何,F1是否应该消除车手对黄旗做出敷衍性松油门、随后全速完成剩余圈速(可能包括经过事故现场)的激励?
红牛环赛道的事件表明了当前规则下的明显安全风险。允许车手高速通过事故现场造成了显而易见的危险。
尽管引入更严格的规则可能会导致更多圈速被删除,但车队会预见到这一点并相应调整他们的运行计划。
F1车手是职业赛车手,他们对附着极限的理解远超普通观察者。要求他们在黄旗时短暂松油门就足够了。
引入更严格的限制会导致排位赛中更多圈速被删除,并使车手更容易阻止对手提升圈速。
红牛环赛道的事件和匈牙利赛道的类似情况,带有现代F1最令人反感的特点之一的味道:规则被以一种将宝贵的“表演”置于所有其他考虑(甚至可能包括安全)之上的方式解读。维斯塔潘的撞车不应只得到双黄旗;出示红旗也是合理的。
F1绝对需要加强这一点。不难想象类似的判罚可能导致更糟糕的后果,尤其是在湿滑天气条件下。
防止这种情况的最佳方式是将目前禁止车手在双黄旗挥动下提升圈速的规则扩展到单黄旗。这将立即消除车手在敷衍性地松一下油门后全速恢复圈速的潜在危险激励。
如果这导致不良后果,例如车手试图故意引发黄旗,可以通过其他方式处理。优先事项应该是将潜在安全风险降至最低。
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F1是否应阻止车手在排位赛黄旗下提升圈速?
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英文原文
As the final seconds ticked down in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen over-committed at the high-speed entrance to the penultimate corner and spun off into a barrier.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli spotted the yellow flag waving and reacted immediately, backing off to avoid improving his lap time and risking a penalty.
But George Russell saw the same signal and reacted differently. Noticing that only a single yellow flag was waving and not a double, Russell immediately understood he only needed to reduce his speed temporarily and that his lap would stand if he completed it.
Russell’s knowledge of the regulations paid off: he grabbed pole position while his team mate admitted he should have lifted and then pressed on.
Weeks later at the Hungaroring, facing a similar situation, Antonelli did exactly that. On this occasion the stewards decided he did not slow down enough and penalised him.
But should drivers ever be allowed to improve their lap times under yellow flag conditions? The fact a single yellow flag was used in response to Verstappen’s crash at the Red Bull Ring attracted considerable comment: the incident occured at a high-speed corner where another driver could easily have gone off and hit the stationary car. Yellow flags are supposed to prevent this kind of incident from happening, but if drivers are allowed to merely lift the throttle briefly and then resume at full speed, are they no longer serving their intended purpose?
There is more than one way F1 could address this. Any lap time improvement by a driver under double waved yellow flags is automatically deleted; this same arrangement could be introduced for single waved yellow flags. Or the use of double waved yellow flags could be mandated for any incident in qualifying.
Either way, should F1 remove the incentive for drivers to respond to a yellow flag with a perfunctory lift followed by a full commitment approach to the rest of the lap, potentially including the accident scene?
The Red Bull Ring case demonstrated a clear safety risk under the current regulations. Allowing drivers to pass the crash scene at speed created an obvious danger.
Although introducing stricter rules would potentially lead to more lap times being deleted, teams will anticipate this and adjust their run plans accordingly.
F1 drivers are professional racers who understand the limits of adhesion far better than ordinary observers. Requiring them to briefly lift for yellow flags is sufficient.
Introducing stricter limits would lead to more times being deleted during qualifying and would make it easier for drivers to prevent rivals from improving their lap times.
The incident at the Red Bull Ring and the similar situation at the Hungaroring smacked of one of the most unappealing traits of modern F1: the regulations being interpreted in a way which puts the precious ‘show’ above all other considerations, potentially even safety. Verstappen’s crash did not deserve less than double waved yellow flags; a red flag would have been justified.
F1 absolutely needs to toughen this up. It is no small leap of imagination to see how a similar decision could lead to a much worse outcome, particularly in wet weather conditions.
The best way to prevent this would be to extend the current rule preventing drivers from improving their times under double waved yellow flags to singles. This would immediately remove the potentially dangerous incentive for drivers to perform a box-ticking lift of the throttle before resuming their lap at full speed.
If it leads to undesirable consequences such as drivers attempting to deliberately cause yellow flags, that can be dealt with in other ways. The priority should be to minimise the potential safety risk.
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