[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

What puzzles me about the pitlane being closed is why that isn't signalled to the driver - in the car. There are so many things that are signalled (or capable of being signalled), the simplest thing from a safety point of view is to have a pitlane closed indicator in the cars, triggered by the race director, not way out on a corner largely out of your eyeline..... or is that too simple to expect?

You would have thought but like most aspects of F1, things are rarely simple.