I’m trying to understand what exactly happened in the Abu Dabi F1 2021 Drama, but as someone very new to racing I don’t seem to understand what exactly happened. I keep hearing lapped cars were allowed to unlap, but as someone who hasn’t seen that match or any for that matter, I don’t exactly know what that means.
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Lapped cars are cars that were so slow that the faster cars in front of them were so much faster, that they caught them again and overtook them. So they’re a lap ahead.
Why lapped cars are allowed to unlap themselves in the case of a safety car + restart, rather than moving aside a little on the restart to let the faster cars go on with their business, is a mystery of the universe. There are explanations, none of them really make sense.
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