General Sportscar Chat thread

[Akrapovic]

I don't feel the timing of the radio matters because such actions can only be carried out in braking zones anyway. So the radio looks worse if you lay it over just before a braking zone, where as if it had been said on the exit of turn 2, then suddenly it looks better because the move isn't executed until later. So purely by lucky placement of the cars in a lap, the move can be seen as better or worse. So if it was an order to the driver then I don't believe that it matters what time it was given, and that there should be a heavy heavy penalty.

However if what Ullrich says is true, and that his radio is not connected to the driver, then it cannot possibly be determined that this is an order, and it is just unlucky that it was caught on a radio and TV made it look like it was an order. But even if it wasn't an order, the move must've then been Timos own decision, and the disqualification should stand.

Timing is far less important than if his radio does broadcast to the drivers. And even if Ullrich is completely innocent and was unluckily caught on a radio which would've had no impact otherwise, the crime was just placed fully on Timo.