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Originally Posted by mstets
Thank you. I don't understand why neither driver's times were shown on timing even if the times were a minute off the pace. Did they not complete a lap on course during the session? It seems to me that a lap of the circuit should show as a lap time regardless of the pace.
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They aborted their laps and returned to pit lane so did not complete their laps. Under the red flag rules they have to return to pit lane so they dont register as a full lap. Max chose to abort his first lap and return to pitlane, having gone wide and lost too much time. His 2nd lap was lost to the red flag.
With hindsight Max would have been better to do an extra Q3 lap, even on the old tyres to get at least a banker in that would be still probably faster than many. He chose not to and relied on a second lap at the end which was lost to the red.
Bottas, knowing he was likely only going to finish 10th in Q3, chose to save a set of tyres for the race and only do one Q3 run at the end.... that got lost under the red flag.