What a stupid rule. He jump started, we all saw it with our own eyes. But because some piece of equipment is the only thing that's allowed to judge a jump start and it clearly doesn't work, it's not therefore a false start? More F1 nonsense.
Maybe they should not rely on a rule that has a single point of failure to govern this. There are more camera's at races these days than ever before. So use that as your backup in your ruling.
Whilst there's loads of camera's about, they don't have one set up exactly in line with each of the twenty start positions. Doing so would require a lot of effort and reviewing the footage is arguably more subjective that simply just having a sensor at an arbitrary point. Nothing is perfect but the sensor is a least in theory consistent.
Maybe they should not rely on a rule that has a single point of failure to govern this.
They don't:
§48.1.c does not say anything about the transponder.
There are two parts of this rule: Did he move enough to trigger the transponder? No. Was the tire in front of the grid position regardless of transponder movement? Yes.
From Russel's car-cam, you can see that Norris first moves while all lights are on. Probably before he actually leaves his start-box, the lights go out. He stops outside the box, everybody starts and he goes last. I can imagine that the sensors did not catch that as a violation. It is (on F1TV) about 1 movie frame that you can see movement under lights on. Would love to see someone slowly playing it with broad-cast quality. It could have been the fastest start ever if he had continued to drive.
Didn't Alonso get 5 secs penalty last year for being a couple of cm to the left of his gridbox? Total BS!
He did get a penalty.After that the gridbox was widened and yellow marker line was added to the gridbox.Hoping there is some improvement to this rule too.
