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**Seerseraxlils** · 04-22-2010, 10:58 PM

I would say we are still talking the offence, not the end result. Compare it to an offence of cutting the white line on the pit lane exit. If you cross the line you get a penalty, because that's considered dangerous. If you get really close to the line but don't cross it, you didn't commit an offence, even though there might only be inches in it. Similarly, you could say that going wheel to wheel in the pit lane and passing inches from pit equipment is one kind of offence, while going wheel to wheel and driving over pit equipment is a different kind of offence.
Drivers pass close to pit equipment and personnel in every race. How close is too close? With no specific rule on the matter, the only interpretation left is that if you didn't hit anything, you weren't too close.

OK! I admit I am confused by this post. I am saying that driving wheel to wheel down the pitlane is an offence no matter how close any pitlane equipment is or even whether there is any pitlane equipment. I only included the presence of pitlane equipment to show what the outcome may have been had one car run over it. I'll even go further to say beyond any doubt that two cars should never drive side by side down the pitlane and if such a situation arose accidentally, then the car ahead has right of way and the other car should yield immediately.

Perhaps you would like to comment on this interpretation instead as my other post may have resulted from a misinterpretation on my part.

04-22-2010, 10:58 PM	#19
Seerseraxlils Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 562 Senior Member	I would say we are still talking the offence, not the end result. Compare it to an offence of cutting the white line on the pit lane exit. If you cross the line you get a penalty, because that's considered dangerous. If you get really close to the line but don't cross it, you didn't commit an offence, even though there might only be inches in it. Similarly, you could say that going wheel to wheel in the pit lane and passing inches from pit equipment is one kind of offence, while going wheel to wheel and driving over pit equipment is a different kind of offence. Drivers pass close to pit equipment and personnel in every race. How close is too close? With no specific rule on the matter, the only interpretation left is that if you didn't hit anything, you weren't too close. OK! I admit I am confused by this post. I am saying that driving wheel to wheel down the pitlane is an offence no matter how close any pitlane equipment is or even whether there is any pitlane equipment. I only included the presence of pitlane equipment to show what the outcome may have been had one car run over it. I'll even go further to say beyond any doubt that two cars should never drive side by side down the pitlane and if such a situation arose accidentally, then the car ahead has right of way and the other car should yield immediately. Perhaps you would like to comment on this interpretation instead as my other post may have resulted from a misinterpretation on my part.
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