⚠️ The Serious Issue That Affected Many in Sprint Qualifying

By mistake, the FIA didn’t activate overtake mode in SQ1 after the red flag.

This serious issue massively limited straight-line performance (~10 km/h top speed loss).

Crucially, it was then reactivated for 27s, unfairly advantaging those who could exploit it!

Look at OCO:
⬛️ L5 (Issue)
🟧 L8 (OK)

His high-speed acceleration (lower plot) dropped massively → 11-12 km/h top speed loss.

ALB, STR, and LIN are the most likely to have lost SQ2 access because of this, and SAI to a lesser extent.

We're 'lucky' that the championship is practically decided; otherwise, issues like this could impact it...

[Via @JMP_Europe]