On sky they kept saying that Jenson button had misjudged his final out lap which meant he crossed the line half a second after the session ended. But when he asked how long was left while sat in the pits his team said 2 minutes, they were wrong, the clock was showing 1:59. I believe that Button actually timed his out lap absolutely perfectly and the fault was solely with the team who gave him false information about how long was left. Just thought i'd say that
Out of curiosity of what benefit would there be to really cutting it that fine? Seems like he paid the price today.
There session was stopped due to an accident and then restarted with 1:59 left meaning that a lot of cars all left the pit lane at the same time to try to get round in time to start a 'hot lap' before the clock ended. The problem with that was that so many cars all setting off at the same time meant there was no gaps between them all so if you were in a faster car than the person who got out in front of you then you would be held up. Button tried to create a gap between him and the car in front by slowing down a little and dropping back so that on his hot lap he could go flat out without catching up the car in front and getting held up. In other races it is often beneficial to try to cut it as fine as you can if the track is improving. If you start your lap with 1 second left it can be a quicker track (due to temperature or dryness) than it was just a few seconds earlier. So if you start with 5 seconds left and I start with 1 second left I could have the better track, only by a thousand of a second or so but in F1 it can be that close at times.
Hadnt watched todays so didnt realise about the issues. Risk/reward is a tight balance obviously. My understanding was he missed the final qualifying, i understand hes in a gash car this year but didnt realise he needed to cut it so fine to make that thousandth of a second. Sad for him in reality. Cheers.
