FEATURE
Nico Rosberg’s opinion: “What you have
to do with a double yellow is significantly
reduce your speed and make sure you go
safe. I went twenty kilometres per hour
slower into that corner, twenty kilometres
per hour is a different world in an F1 car.”
“Twenty kilometres per hour, you
are going proper slow. It’s completely…
everything is safe. That’s how I did my
speed and lifted off thirty meters before my
braking point, so I was just rolling there,
twenty kilometres per hour slower until I got
to the apex.”
“Then of course when you’re in the
apex, I would have a much tighter line
because I went in slow and then so I
could accelerate out again. So definitely I
significantly reduced my speed and that’s
what it says you need to do and that’s
why for the stewards that was completely
acceptable.”
“It was very very obvious what I did,
very clear and of course on a drying track
you’re going to get massively faster every
lap. It’s not like the track was consistent. On
a drying track, it’s irrelevant what the sector
time was because you’re going to get so
much quicker every time you go out there
because there’s wet patches and when they
dry, you just go so much quicker.”
“And so in that segment, I was slower,
where there was the yellow flag but of
course in the big sector, yeah, I’m quicker
because the track is getting quicker and I’m
pushing in all the other corners. So it was a
pretty clear case for the stewards and that’s
why I didn’t get any penalty.”