|
| Site Partners: | SpotterGuides | Veloce Books |
| Related Sites: | Your Link Here |
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
12 Mar 2006, 19:37 (Ref:1545377)
|
#1 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,536
 |
Speed Coverage
I believe Speed TV in the US gets the global feed of F1 races, and in the last corner, before the stripe- alonso pulls over to hail his team- and schumacher PASSES the STRIPE FIRST?!
yet Alonso was decalre winner even before the stipe was crossed- the reaon I ask abouout the feed, is perhaps the camera angle made it look so, but I have seen it 3 times and schumacher and the ferrari pass the stripe before Alonso at the checkered flag- is this a weird miss or am I eating bad bread for toast in the morning? |
||
|
__________________
SuperTrucks rule- end of story. Listen to my ramblings! Follow my twitter @davidAET I am shameless ... 
|
|
12 Mar 2006, 19:41 (Ref:1545382)
|
#2 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 1,720
|
I think this confusion arrises from the positioning of the start and finish lines. Unlike in most motorsport, the start and finish line are not the same! The finish line comes before any of the grid hatchings, whilst the start line is the one in front of them. The timing of the race stops when the leader passes the finish line - the first one - before the grid hatching. It is irrelevent whether the winner is subsequently passed before reaching the start line.
|
||
|
|
|
|
12 Mar 2006, 22:13 (Ref:1545533)
|
#3 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,536
|
well i have been watching for 20+ years of F1 and that is the first I ever heard of that- wow do I feel Sheepish...
well if that doesn't bug |
||
|
|
__________________
SuperTrucks rule- end of story. Listen to my ramblings! Follow my twitter @davidAET I am shameless ...
|
|
13 Mar 2006, 01:47 (Ref:1545660)
|
#4 | ||
|
Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 30
|
Does that only apply to the last lap? Or how are laps timed? Is that little bit just ignored in lap times? Surely not...
|
||
|
|
|
|
13 Mar 2006, 02:23 (Ref:1545680)
|
#5 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 2,382
|
I think some tracks have the same start/line line.
I know Melbourne, Spa and Monaco do. But Interlagos, Imola and Silverstone are three that i can think of where the checkers are waved further back down the grid. |
|
|
|
__________________
... without motorsport, what is sport?
|
|
13 Mar 2006, 08:30 (Ref:1545788)
|
#6 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 692
|
Official winning margain was 1.2 sec.
|
||
|
|
__________________
Damn! I knew that Pole Dancing could be technical, but never to THAT degree!
|
|
13 Mar 2006, 12:17 (Ref:1547060)
|
#7 | ||
|
Ten-Tenths Hall of Fame
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 1999
Posts: 5,306
|
I believe Magny-Cours also has a Finish Line well behind the Start Line.
|
||
|
|
__________________
Go Tribe!!!!
|
|
14 Mar 2006, 19:18 (Ref:1548275)
|
#8 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 6,760
|
Some are different, some aren't.
IIRC, what happens is the first lap ends at the "new" line: therefore, the further back on the grid you are the longer your first lap is. From then on, the laps are timed from the new-line to new-line. I think. |
||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Speed Channel USGP Coverage | Kirk | Formula One | 30 | 23 Jun 2005 22:48 |
| Speed TV coverage upped | paul-collins | Sportscar & GT Racing | 12 | 8 Jun 2004 14:26 |
| US TV Coverage | xbook | Formula One | 3 | 11 Feb 2003 08:57 |
| TV Coverage | kbudden | National & International Single Seaters | 9 | 8 Apr 2002 21:11 |
| US Speed channel coverage | Bibendum | Formula One | 12 | 5 Mar 2002 04:36 |
Linear Mode
