Lookup how vsc works again. No passing allowed. No racing allowed. Cars must reduce speed and prepare to stop. Cars must maintain deltas.
Once the vsc came out the race results were frozen.
ApexHunter
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Getting back on full throttle then hitting the brakes a second time mid corner is what got him in trouble. The early braking denotes the erratic behavior was intentional instead of accidental.
The penalty wasn't about being slow, it was about being erratic. This was effectively the same as weaving, except it was with the brake and throttle instead of the steering wheel.
The cars still all have to travel back to the pit lane for a red flag; they don't just stop where they are in the track. It was the last lap, the only difference between vsc and a red flag is the trip down pit lane.
Your order(s) don't necessarily ship all of the items from the same warehouse.
I'm convinced those statements are wrong in some way. Either not comparing houses of similar size or unoccupied units are skewing the numbers. Or they just tell everyone they're doing horrible to try and sell energy efficiency stuff.
When I compare using figures from my thermostat via beestat.io my house is in the top 40% (uses less energy than 60% of similar homes in my area).
RTFA, it is right there ffs
Collective punishment is a war crime.
Avocado toast or peanut butter toast. I guess technically there is some sort of cooking involved there but it is minimal...
The reply would have been return x % 2 == 0, or if you wanted it to be less readable return !(x&1).
But if you were going for a way that is subtly awful or expensive, just do a regex match on "[02468]$". You don't get a stack overflow with larger numbers but I struggle to think of a plausible bit of code that consumes more unnnecessary cycles than that...
I know all of the Alonso fans are in a tizzy over this, but it was an appropriate penalty.
Everyone upset seems to be buying the line that he was taking the corner slower to get a better exit. That would be late apexing. When you do that, you brake LATER and turn into the corner LATER (at a sharper angle), then apply throttle EARLIER. Alonso's actions are inconsistent with an intent to get a better exit.
He broke earlier. Then he sped up. He entered the corner on the usual line with extra traction available. Then he jabbed the brakes mid corner. If he had taken the corner at normal speeds, that would have absolutely upset the car, so this was PLANNED. Immediately after jabbing the brakes he is back on throttle and accelerating out of the corner.
I believe his intention was to force Russel to react to his behavior, then accelerate away while Russell reacts to him braking, to build an extra bit of gap to neutralize the drs advantage.
This was absolutely a brake check. Alonso has done this many times before, and he usually gets away with it because it is on the line or he has a plausible excuse for his actions. This time he screwed up and took it over the line.
You know his intentions here because he was immediately on the radio making up an excuse for his actions. Except that excused didn't jive with the telemetry so he had to give the stewards a DIFFERENT excuse which still isn't plausible (see late apex above).
This penalty isn't punishing him for driving defensively. It won't result in drivers getting penalties for parking their car on the apex. This penalty was about erratic driving that compromises the safety of other cars and drivers on the track. The outcome here is direct evidence of the safety concern.
As much as you may not like Russel or question his skills, ask yourself what would have happened to other drivers in this situation? I would argue 2/3 of the other drivers would have bottled it the same way he did.