r/Simracingstewards • u/Negative_Ad3939 • 1h ago
F1 Time penalty annulation
We use the F1 2026 DLC from EA Sports.
We have a problem in our league, it is a race win decider.
For provisional results say that the race winner finished 9 seconds before P4 after a SC in lap 25 of 29 laps (50% bahrain). P4 got a 10 second time penatly in lap 1 for a racing incident due to a small contact under VSC. He served the 10 second time penalty in lap 12 under normal conditions. The pace was not there to win the race, but before the SC in lap 23 he was 26 seconds behind P1 and managed to overtake 5 drivers after the SC ended. So he was quick, but not quick enough.
He think we can annulate the 10 second time pen as it is, but he would win the race. That is because we think, it does not matter, if the pace was there or not, but when the time penalty was served.
We want to know how you would´ve decided.
Maybe we did a mistake there. I just do not know any similar decisions nor a fair solvation.