Yeah.
I now hope it rains after all (my followers know what I mean)
Waved yellows came out straight away and we saw Lewis carefully negotiate the scene of the accident shortly thereafter. That would have been in Lewis's second attempt after aborting the lap where he was impeded by Massa.I'm not sure if anyone else has said this but did the red flags come out before he would have finished the lap? Therefore it wouldnt count anyway? I'm not 100% if thats what happened
If he boycotted a lap (unless he came into the pits which would be pointless) he would have had to have crossed the start/finish line and set a time, albeit very slow? the timings show no lap time recorded
Lewis's time was struck from the record by the Stewards for cutting the chicane at the swimming pool.
Post #35 (page 2) of this thread has a screen shot of Hamilton and Massa with:
A.... 3:21 remaining in Q3
B... Hamilton's S1 time of around 19.8 seconds and delta
C... Vettel's, Button', Webber's, Alonso's times, etc.
The race was Red Flagged with 2:26 remaining...i.e. 55 seconds after Hamilton's clocking in at S1.
Add in 19 seconds to 55 seconds and you get a time of around 1:14
Vettel, Button had clocked sub 1:14s...and Webber was virtually 1:14 flat.
Hamilton would have been WELL PAST the Chicane when the Session was Red Flagged at 2:26 remaining.
Indeed, he'd have been crossing the Start/Finish line at about 2:26.
Hamilton, instead of waving to Massa, should have kept his head down and completed his Flyer, knowing he hadn't a banker in his pocket from not having gone out earlier like the others.
Shame.
That was the lap after Perez was taken away. The invalidated lap for chicane-cutting came in the re-started session.
It had nothing to do with the laps surrounding the 'Massa lap'.
If Chris is talking about the lap when Perez crashed then that's because everyone pitted due to the RED FLAG. I don't believe that is what Chris was asking about. I think he was asking about the classification after completion of Q3. If that is not the case then Chris' can talk to me directly.
so i am guessing that had he started that lap about 5 seconds earlier he would have completed that lap (albeit slower from massa) before the red flag and could have been much higher up the grid?
What I was saying/asking is that Lewis never got to finish the lap he was on where Perez crashed? He would have been near the end of his lap when the red flag came out - could have only been a few seconds before finishing the lap?
Hamilton would have clocked a time faster than Alonso's at least had he just completed that 'Massa lap' of his, whether or not he'd have started 5 seconds earlier.
Massa was always going to be on his out lap.
Someone was always going to be on their out or in lap in Q3 at Monaco.
It's a very short lap of around sub 1:15s...that's one of the shortest laps of the year on a track that the shortest of the year...so there's always going to be some traffic.