Originally Posted by Iqbal_M:
“It has always been the rule in F1 that, if a race has been red flagged (stopped) any cars/drivers that have retired from the race prior to the red flag cannot take part in race once the race has restarted. Therefore, Williams even if they could repair Massa's car could not take part in the restarted race.”
“It has always been the rule in F1 that, if a race has been red flagged (stopped) any cars/drivers that have retired from the race prior to the red flag cannot take part in race once the race has restarted. Therefore, Williams even if they could repair Massa's car could not take part in the restarted race.”
So Massa just made the mistake of retiring to early? before they knew of the need to repair the barrier. As I can remember the start of the 1998 Belgian GP at Spa where there was a massive pile up at the start. Lots of cars were involved some were repaired for the restart and some took the spare car.




