Liz Emery

I am a motor racing mad, George Russell fan! Total geek and Critter! Love going to the cinema!
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[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@ollieollieGA We have been moved too and still havw not had our updated tickets. Have you?

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@Christina_j_7x @TicketmasterUK What i was told; "The Event Organisers have made some changes to the production which may include the layout of the stage, positioning of lighting rigs or speakers. Due to this, the seats you had originally aren't being used any more as the view will be restricted."

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@TicketmasterUK how can I complain about our seats changing for the Pussycat Dolls concert in Birmingham? We paid for good money for seats near the stage on the day tickets went on sale and have now been moved to a back row further away from the stage.

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@Christina_j_7x @TicketmasterUK Neh, just got corporate speak and the T&C's quoted at me.

[Silverstone @SilverstoneUK]

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[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@MercedesAMGF1 @GeorgeRussell63 Great drive by George to hold off for so long on old tyres.
Your blatant favouritism to Kimi is painful to watch, always putting him ahead of George.

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@MercedesAMGF1 All set up at Silverstone and ready to cheer on @GeorgeRussell63 to a home victory!

[Ruth Buscombe @RuthBuscombe]

Same flag, same corner, two different calls at Mercedes.

Verstappen crashed in the final sector. On a single waved yellow, George Russell lifted
right at the flag, 25 km/h off the throttle, then got straight back to it. His sector was
unchanged (+0.03s), but the dab is there in black and white. Pole stood. Kimi Antonelli read
it as a double yellow, where the rule is simple: bin any meaningful time or take a penalty.
He came off 61 km/h, lost about two seconds, and parked the lap.

Both were right for what they saw. A single yellow needs a clear, discernible lift, not an
abandoned lap. The benchmark for "enough"? Qatar 2021: Carlos Sainz gave up a measured 0.155s
on a single yellow and walked. In 2019 Verstappen kept it pinned through a single yellow at
Mexico, didn't reduce at all, and lost pole. Russell's trace looks like Sainz's, not
Verstappen's. Mercedes nailed the read.

If you the numbers have a look 👇

TECHNICAL NOTES

Session: 2026 Austrian GP qualifying, Q3. Single waved yellow in Sector 3 at the site of
Verstappen's crash (~3.9 km into the lap, final-corner complex).

RUSSELL (pole)
- Flagged lap (pole): 1:06.113. Clean reference run: 1:06.457.
- At the flag: speed drops to 215 km/h vs 240 on his clean lap = a 25 km/h lift.
- Local cost at the marshalling point (~300 m window): about +0.09s.
- Sector 3 net: +0.03s vs his clean lap so he recovered the time after the dab.
- Read: a clear, discernible reduction exactly where the flag was, on a single yellow. Cleared,
not investigated.

ANTONELLI (P4)
- Flagged final run: 1:08.215. Clean reference (his grid lap): 1:06.414.
- At the flag: speed drops to 178 km/h vs 239 = a 61 km/h lift.
- Sector 3: +2.07s vs his clean lap. He treated it as a double yellow and abandoned the lap,
keeping his earlier 1:06.414 for fourth.

THE RULE : 2026 F1 Sporting Regulations, Art. B1.8.4 (a)/(b)
- Single waved yellow: "must reduce their speed and be prepared to change direction... expected
to have braked earlier and/or discernibly reduced speed in the relevant marshalling sector."
No fixed numeric threshold (judged on telemetry, at the flag point.)
- Double waved yellow: must not attempt a meaningful lap time; in qualifying the lap is deleted
automatically (2026). Don't back off enough and it's a grid penalty.

PRECEDENT (single yellow, measured the same way)
- Sainz, Qatar 2021: +0.155s lift in the yellow sector. No action cleared. (The benchmark.)
- Verstappen, Mexico 2019: S3 -0.001s, no measurable lift, improved the lap. Pole stripped, -3
places. (The line you can't cross.)

WHY MERCEDES ARE CONFIDENT, AND THE EVIDENCE THEY'D PRESENT IF CHALLENGED
- It was a single yellow, not a double so an abandoned lap was never required, only a
discernible reduction.
- The car telemetry shows a distinct throttle lift and a 25 km/h speed drop precisely at the
marshalling sector where the flag was shown the "discernible reduction" the rule asks for.
- The magnitude matches the cleared Sainz Qatar 2021 precedent (~0.15s), and is the opposite of
the penalised Verstappen Mexico 2019 case (no reduction at all).
- Same-team control case: Antonelli, same corner, same flag, shows what a double-yellow-style
abort looks like (61 km/h, +2.07s). Russell's trace is plainly a single-yellow lift, not that.
- Supporting: onboard footage of the flag/panel state, and the marshalling-sector light status
by the time he arrived.

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[h ⋆ ⁶³ @russellius]

so they have literally not communiated anything to him throughout this lap other than stay out, he was told to stay out and not notified that the SC will pass through the pitlane, he was not told of the pitstop AND THEY FORGOT THE PENALTY

WTH IS THIS

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

Best part is...the item is still on the website so more people will fall into the same trap as me.

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

Hey @MercedesAMGF1 your offical online shop is terrible. It allowed me to order the same out of stock item...twice. That cancelled my whole order of GR63 merch...twice. And the refund process is so slow I am now almost £600 down till next Wednesday so can't even try to reorder!

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@PMAmazonHelp_ Amazon confirmed this is a fake account. Please do not give them any details!

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@AmazonHelp It will not let me send a DM.

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@AmazonHelp please can you help. Amazon shipping has delivered a parcel with wedding photos that has been damaged and out of 958 I have got 87. Missing personal photos including pictures of young children. I am massively concerned.

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@AmazonHelp Please can you help more. The response didn't help me answer i can't reply to talk more. Who else can I talk too as I am not happy!

[Formula 1 @F1]

GEORGE RUSSELL WINS IN CANADA! 👏🏆

A controlled victory for the Mercedes driver who withstands the pressure from Max Verstappen behind 💪

#F1 #CanadianGP

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@Emery102 Ha! I didnt know that!

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@SilverstoneUK Joined the queue bang on 11am and still have a 17 minute wait! How can it take half an hour? That's mad.

[Liz Emery @Lizemery]

@RSVLTS is your UK store going to restocked with the women Disneys Robin Hood "ARCHRIVALS" shirt as I want it for my wedding!?!