Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] What happened in Interlagos?

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns10974.html
The important question that needs to be answered about the Brazilian
Grand Prix is how it was that the classification was issued incorrectly -
if it is judged that this was the case. The timing screens immediately
after the race showed the order on lap 54. Several journalists (who have
veryn tight deadlines in Brazil) where in the process of writing stories
with Giancarlo Fisichella was the winner. Those who kept lap charts were
busy arguing that Fisichella had completed lap 55 and therefore that the
classification should have been at the end of lap 53. But its seems that
everyone was wrong because Fisichella did not take the red flag before he
crossed the finish line and so was his 56th lap when the race was
stopped. Thus the classication should have been taken at the end of lap
54, as the screens indicated. At some point (several minutes) after the
race ended this was switched to the classification at the end of lap 53
which made Kimi Raikkonen the winner as he was still in the lead at that
point.
The mess in Brazil may also be linked to the fact that for the first time
in memory Race Control also missed a clear violation of the rules when
Ralf Schumacher overtook Jos Verstappen before the start-finish line at
the first restart. This should have been reported and punished with a
drive-through penalty. Several drivers also reported yellow flag
overtaking incidents which were not punished.
The interesting point in all this is that there may be a reason for it
all happening at the same event. The demise of the Formula One television
digital broadcasts means that some of the technology which was used by
Race Control may no longer be available.
The digital broadcast centre - known in the Formula 1 paddock as
"Bakersville" after Eddie Baker, the former Brabham mechanic who ran it -
was producing groundbreaking digital TV coverage of Grands Prix racing.
This was able to monitor the exact position of each car on the track at
any time. This was very useful for the TV crews because it enabled them
to have the cameras better coordinated and to have the captioning much
more reliable. This was achieved by the use of an fibre optic cable
"ring" of the circuit, linking together sensors which are placed every
100m. As the computers knew exactly where the cars were and how fast they
were going it was possible to monitor incidents and we believe that
software existed which indicated if a driver has gone through an accident
scene faster than he should have done or overtaken when he was not
supposed to have done.
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 aridatece Bernivision!! (e pagatelo il canone, cazzo!)
Io lo avrei anche pagato.... :-((((
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Ancora una cosa sull'episodio. Voglio proprio vedere che razza di 
classifica salta fuori...
Fisichella (e forse RAI) 54 giri e tutti gli altri doppiati... :-D
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Papà papà attento, hai pestato la riga bianca! 
Scusa figliolo, stavo ascoltando la radio, stai buono e mangia la 
banana.