[Rules] The FIA - what's occurring there?

[Skam85]

Originally Posted by peebee2

I wasn't sure. I knew the F1 rules did change some time ago but couldn't remember which way round.

I did a bit of a dive into red flagged F1 races last night after this discussion, there haven't been many examples in history that have had these specific set of circumstances, where a race is red flagged, not resumed and a driver that has DNFed is classified still. These are just the handful since 1990. Only once (03) has this resulted in a car that has DNFed classified in the points.

Nothing in the past 10yrs though, so the rules may have changed. The closest we came to knowing was Australia last year, but that was "restarted" and the Alpines were both out.

1990 Portugal - Caffi, Suzuki (accident) classified 13th and 14th
1991 Adelaide - Gugelmin (spun off) classified 14th.
1997 Canada - Panis (accident) classified 11th
2003 Brazil - Webber, Alonso (accident) classified 9th and 3rd
2009 Malaysia - Vettel, Buemi, Fisichella (spun off) - classified 15th, 16th, 18th
2014 Japan - Bianchi (accident) classified 20th

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by Skam85

I did a bit of a dive into red flagged F1 races last night after this discussion, there haven't been many examples in history that have had these specific set of circumstances, where a race is red flagged, not resumed and a driver that has DNFed is classified still. These are just the handful since 1990. Only once (03) has this resulted in a car that has DNFed classified in the points.

Nothing in the past 10yrs though, so the rules may have changed. The closest we came to knowing was Australia last year, but that was "restarted" and the Alpines were both out.

1990 Portugal - Caffi, Suzuki (accident) classified 13th and 14th
1991 Adelaide - Gugelmin (spun off) classified 14th.
1997 Canada - Panis (accident) classified 11th
2003 Brazil - Webber, Alonso (accident) classified 9th and 3rd
2009 Malaysia - Vettel, Buemi, Fisichella (spun off) - classified 15th, 16th, 18th
2014 Japan - Bianchi (accident) classified 20th

Let's not forget the 1996 Monaco GP when there were more non finishers classified than actual finishers!

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Skam85

Nothing in the past 10yrs though, so the rules may have changed.

Although worth noting that only one race in the last 10 years has been red-flagged and not restarted.

[Skam85]

Originally Posted by S griffin

Let's not forget the 1996 Monaco GP when there were more non finishers classified than actual finishers!

I don't believe that was red flagged, was it?

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Skam85

I don't believe that was red flagged, was it?

IIRC the two-hour time limit came into effect, due to the rain.

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

IIRC the two-hour time limit came into effect, due to the rain.

Yes that’s correct. And what a race it was. One of my favourites of all time