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No-one wants you to bring your facts around here.

So the solid yellow lights on the main straight signified red and yellow flags for slippery conditions because the marshals don't have access to that area and thus cannot put out the actual flags. If this is the truth then the drivers would have known about it and the overtake would be completely legal. Essentially end of discussion.

Unfortunately there is no such thing as "end of discussion" in planet-f1.
Lets see whether and when this thread reaches its 10th page....

Yeah I agree with you. I define discussion when points and counter points are being made. If no new points are put forward then the rest is parrots just repeating the same thing over and over again. Which is 90% of this board unfortunately.

I don't want to discuss how legimate was the pass.
Aren't those LED board RGB? Why didn't they flash the red/yellow "slippery" signal? It would have just made it clear for both drivers and us - fans.

It certainly appears that the overtake was technically under yellow. However it also appears there was one green signal effectively between yellow signals which may have been in error, but it certainly was confusing.

So technically it could be argued the overtake was under yellow, but after the confusion of a green signal mid yellow, which is the only defence the stewards could present.

In any event, technical infringement or not, the change the championship after the event on a technically is not about to happen and Ferrari are aware there would be no positive publicity if the result was overturned. The whole reason for a win is positive publicity.

does anyone have a link to video or pictures of the incident???
I'm not really interested if the FIA have said the pass was ok (given their questionable past). They are more interested in protecting the reputation of the sport over making fair judgements.

The video/pics should show straight yellows or not so this thread could easily be ended!

This thread really has already been ended but, if you want to, just re watch the race. Those lights are like that for the entirety of the first part of the race . You can see them from several in car cams,no one paid much attention to them. The drivers clearly knew what they meant and I'm betting they went over it in the drivers meeting.

But, and I cannot stress this enough, no one should let any of this deter them from their righteous indignation if that's more fun for them.

I think you're trying to end this fascinating discussion that people are having!

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Exactly and whats more funny is Sky ignored all the other numerous on boards with these static lights and chose one where Vettel was overtaking Koba.

Great way to embarrass yourself ! The interview with Ferrari's Pat Fry was especially funny , Sky git was trying to coax Fry into giving some importance to the "little yellow light investigative journalism " they had conducted and Fry was least interested and almost rubbished the video in his face !

NO, there is no "technically" about it...


If the lights were to indicate yellow flags - the lights would have been flashing. The lights were NOT flashing.

IF there was a yellow flag section of the track, this would have been indicated to Vettel via a light in his cockpit which has to be within his line of sight. There was NO light in Vettel's cockpit to indicate a yellow flag section.

The stewards have confirmed it was a yellow/red flag.


There is no "technically" about it. It is ABSOLUTELY a perfectly legal overtake...

End of!!!

You should probably watch the video in the new thread then.
http://forum.planet-f1.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5446

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There was a green flag the video missed. Seems like another blurry incident but Vettel was within his rights to pass.

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What flag? The tower itself is green and if you bothered to watch the video in its entirety you see on the right hand side a yellow light flashing very visible in the gif you posted the yellow lights his dashboard are also on so please stay of the misinformation he overtook under yellows easy as that.

He got away with it end of story

The FIA will investigate (they gave to) and confirm what flag was being waved St that point.

However that Marshall tower is after the point where the flashing light was so could indicate the start of the green zone.

However if it was still a yellow zone The FIA see obliged to hand a punishment...

Like I said look at his dash is indicating yellow and goes off after he passes the green light at the end of the straight

As covered on the BBC article about this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20531638

Maybe we should make the video even blurrier. Did Vettel pass anybody?

Is there a Vettel? What is Red Bull?

Another indicator was the green light flashing after he padded jev the flashing green light is only used when coming out of a yellow section you will find under normal conditions and subsequent sectors the green light is on permanently not flashing..

Give it a rest he passed on yellow flag area theres a bucket load of evidence as it is.

Technically....the yellow lights were on on his steering wheel...technically....you don't pass when they are on.....Technically....speaking....He passed when the yellow lights were on...Technically......Factually !!!!!!

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Common-sensically....there was no need for a yellow flag down the back straight because the incident was @ turn 3....Factually....there was a green flag waving just after turn 3/pit exit....Actually....yellow flag dash lights mean diddly-squat!!!!!

For goodness sake, give over guys! Ferrari can't appeal now, there's a regulation that says appeals must be within half an hour of the end of the race, or similar, hence BMW's fuel irregularity in 2007 didn't give Hamilton the title as McLaren were too late in appealing.

Besides, Ferrari's decision not to appeal when they could obviously shows that even THEY accept Vettel was driving legally.

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Check superuser's embedded clip against the one the BBC is showing; they do tally up. In other words, a green flag was being waved at the end of the pit exit, prior to Sebastian overtaking Jean-Eric (which was prior to the green flashing light at the end of that straight). As far as I'm concerned that makes the overtake legal.

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What did you say... Douglas?

Given the topic is about the appeal that doesn't exist, I'm locking this. It's going round in circles and there's no actual point to it any more.

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I've run out of patience with tyre threads. There is an official one: USE IT.

You're right...Factually, why do they spend all that money to put those stupid lights on the wheel for a better view of when the yellow flag is displayed in a poor visibility race....How silly is that... C'mon !!!!

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Because they ARE obviously helpful to the drivers in bad visibility. Still doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day you can't use them in an argument/appeal.