I don't really care about what specific example you need to validate you're stance.
Motorsport and field sports are not very comparable aside from the competition and physical requirements, so stop trying to use them as an example.
In this instance, of you saying the stewards just 'make it up as they go along' regarding exiting the pit entry, you where wrong.
You providing an example doesn’t validate my stance. My stance is that taking 3 hours, post constest, to make a decisions on a simple and clear-cut breach of a basic sporting rule, is an example of extremely poor officiating. Your inability to provide an example of this situation happening in any other sport demonstrates that this type of enforcement of basic rules is unprecedented across all top level sporting competitions. F1 is a sport, therefor it is valid to compare it to other sports, in regards to the consistency of application of basic sporting rules.
The stewards do make it up as they go. You provided a list which demonstrates just that. You’ve also said they treat each circuit differently. You are the one who has demonstrated that they make it up as they go along.
Another example of the officials making things up is for Charlie to say that there was no previous precedent, when you clearly provided a list full of precedent. The fact Lewis went right to left, as opposed to left to right, after the bollard is irrelevant, since the sporting regs specifically state that crossing the white line after the bollard, in either direction, is against the rules.
Like I said from the start, this episode demonstrates that the stewards are either incompetent (taking 3 hours to make a simple yes/no decision), or involved in a conspiracy. Personally, I’m inclined to belive it’s the former.
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@LMSCorvetteGT2
While I understand @bladgye and his point of view which isn't all that bad nor necessarily wrong. I actually agree with you however, the way you're going about it makes it quite hard since these analogies aren't even remotely comparable to what you're trying to argue.
For example, Football playing fields are set to a specified dimensions and no one playing field is different from the others. It's not like Levi Stadium's out of bound lines are 2 feet wider than that of Gillette Stadium. However, if you go to Baku, the crossing of the white line means you're on the racing line while other tracks it isn't. Also we're talking about a situation where it was under caution at much slower safety car speeds.
At the end of the day I tend to agree more rules should be consistent, clear cut, and avoid ambiguity which seems to be the FIA's life long issue when ruling over F1.
I’ll agree with you that specific analogies are tough to make, but I really don’t think it’s a massive stretch when comparing instances of, “did he cross the line, yes or no?”.
That’s a good point about all football pitches being he same. I’d counter that though, with the fact that every single MLB stadium is different. Regardless of the playing areas being different sizes and shapes from one stadium to the next, basic inforcement of “did he/it go across the line” is uniform from one stadium to the next.
The only time special rules are brought into play is with extremely odd areas of stadiums, eg the Green Monster at Fenway Park in Boston. And even there, white painted lines are used to remove ambiguity regarding “was it in/out” in trouble areas around the Green Monster.
Regarding the incedent happening under safety car....that doesn’t make sense to me as an argument. Because it was behind the safety car, the rules can be relaxed? That seems rather counter intuitive. In life, I’ve never experience a period of hightened caution where rules are relaxed - usually it’s the opposite.
Just as a bit of an aside, and broadening the scope a bit here. We’re now at a point where behind the safety car, and on the first lap of a race - two of the most crucial and dangerous times during a race - we’re relaxing the rules for the sake of the show. To me, that seems like a terrible idea.
I fully agree that the FIA has a history of being very inconsistent and ambiguous in how it applies a variety of rules. It’s because of this history that not many people involved in the sport respect the FIA very much. Gasly questioned their consistency after Britain, most drivers agreed with him. Magnussen has repeatedly stated that rules are applied differently to back markers. Alonso has called the FI-Yay a “Yoke” on the team radio. Vettel has told Charlie to 🤬 off on the radio. In the specific cases of Alonso and Vettel, if those comments would have been made by an MLB player to an Umpire, the player would be tossed from the game emmidiately.
....y’all must’ve had quite some celebration the day he decided to leave 
. I miss PM...didn’t always agree with him, but always enjoyed talking with him. He was the first person on the motorsport forum that was friendly to me, just helpful posts without trying to prove or gloat that knew more than me.
