Thank You for this day and for all the blessings in my life.
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and kindness to help others.
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Guide me and protect my loved ones always.
Amen.
In Austria, Lando Norris could surpass Max Verstappen's best streak of consecutive Q3 appearances (38 between Singapore 2019 and Italy 2021)
Norris has had 38 in a row since Singapore 2024
In fact, car #12 had already exceeded track limits four times before Lap 28. He should have received a 5-second penalty during his second pit stop and would have rejoined behind car #4.
Then, if he had gone off track again while chasing (which he always does), that would have been his fifth offense, resulting in a 10-second penalty. So the idea that car #4 “got lucky”is simply not true. At best, car #12 was only ever going to finish P4.
The FIA’s handling of the penalties was also quite interesting. Automated detection had already recorded four track-limit violations before Lap 28, and another two after Lap 28. However, it wasn’t until McLaren repeatedly complained that the FIA finally counted the Lap 10 track-limit infringement.
In the end, the official document ignored the two violations after lap28, even though for the other drivers, the number of track-limit violations listed in the documents matched the automated detection data exactly.