Doriane Pin penalised for failing to notice F1 Academy race in Saudi Arabia was over; French driver handed 20-second penalty and drops to ninth with Britains Abbi Pulling elevated to winner; Sky Sports F1s Damon Hill criticises decision, saying lights should also indicate end of race

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17 points

Wait…how would she not know. It’s 50/50 on her and her crew. But fully a shitshow.

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24 points

She heard nothing from her race engineer and the flag waving is often difficult to see. It’s actually pretty common for drivers not to know exactly how many laps are left without being reminded.

Damon Hill said that he thinks the lights are the starting grid should also be used to signal the end of a race, and tbh that seems pretty logical.

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4 points

It’s actually pretty common for drivers not to know exactly how many laps are left without being reminded

Can she look at her steering wheel for race info?

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10 points

It’s not what the wheels display. Not even sure if the F1A cars have a Display. They show more general car information and laptime data.

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It’s actually pretty common for drivers not to know exactly how many laps are left without being reminded.

until you approach the end of the race. even if the engineers didn’t proactively mention it she should have been asking them.

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11 points

even if the engineers didn’t proactively mention it she should have been asking them.

She did. Even the broadcast played her question of how many laps are left but the pitwall crew didn’t reply.

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11 points

Her team really dropped the ball on this one.

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8 points

how would she not know.

By pushing for fastest lap which she didn’t have until the very last lap and the pitwall taking off their headphones and high-fiving rather than communicating.

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