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[QUOTE="The Artist....., post: 377247, member: 94"]
Much has been written about the interpretation of regulations 48.12 and 48.13.  In my day-job, I spend an awful lot of time interpreting the meaning of regulations, particularly how they can be applied, so I thought I'd go through and explain why there is an argument that the regulations were followed on Sunday (even if the optics didn't look great).
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Here, the use of "any" is interesting, as "all" would carry no ambiguity.  In addition, the message "LAPPED CARS MAY NOW OVERTAKE" was not issued - instead a [I]different[/I] instruction was issued.  There is an argument that, since a different instruction was issued, then the rest of the regulation (below) does not apply, because of the beginning "[B][U]If[/U][/B] the clerk of the course considers it safe to do so, and the message...".  [B]This could be used as an argument that essentially a new rule was created.[/B]

This element is providing instructions relating to the behaviour of cars.

The key element in this section, that has been drawn upon is "once the last lapped car has passed the leader the safety car will return to the pits at the end of the following lap." - however, this is effectively stating that the latest it should return to the pits is the end of the following lap (as this section is effectively overruled by 15.3)

This message was also not applied.
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