Double lapping at the Hungaroring
In the last Hungarian Grand Prix, several controversies arose following the malfunction of the blue flag system, which appear on the cars’ steering wheels and by regulation indicate to drivers who are about to be lapped to give way to faster cars behind them. In this way, the lapped drivers were signaled by the light panels and the actual blue flags displayed by the track marshals, but also by the signals from their respective engineers, and it was precisely here that the result was quite negative. Not by chance, Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff called them ‘Teletubbies’, annoyed by the traffic that prevented Antonelli from recovering ground for 2nd place and getting closer to Verstappen.
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Even more evident was the episode involving Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz, with the latter, not noticing the arrival of the Australian McLaren driver, coming into contact with #81. The Spanish Williams driver then gave his own version of events on social media, denied by the images, moreover without apologizing to Piastri. A case, along with others that occurred during the race, not accepted by David Coulthard.
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Kindergarten mistakes
The former Scottish driver, in the podcast Up to Speed, criticized the drivers and teams for not being up to the problem that emerged with the blue flags, believing that the engineers could still know where the driver was from the pit wall. Mistakes, according to the 13 GP winner, from “first day of school, and I mean really kindergarten for how the drivers reacted to the blue flags. Now, Toto sits far away in the garage, but back then the engineers looked beyond the pit wall and had a solid perception of where the other cars were. You can’t rely on this during qualifying or pit lane exits, but during a race, when the cars are constantly circulating, it is always possible to keep track. The fact that it was not done well enough in Budapest is simply unacceptable“.
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