Ralf Schumacher believes Pierre Gasly deserved his 'understandable' penalty

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It was a 'highly emotional' moment on Sunday, but Schumacher feels the penalty given was the correct one. F1

Formula 1’s regulations state that a recovery vehicle is allowed on the track under Safety Car conditions, after all as Schumacher says the drivers should be going at “walking pace”.

They’re not, though, they are still driving at over 100 km/h and on Sunday they were doing that with almost no visibility such was the spray.If the sun is shining and the sky is blue, sure deploy the Safety Car and send out a tractor rather than red flag a race for every crash or breakdown. But if the track is wet, if it’s even damp, why take the risk of a driver aquaplaning and hitting the tractor?While many fans after Japan agreed with George Russell that there’s ““, it’s a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to Gasly’s moment that brought back memories of Jules Bianchi’s fatal crash.

No one was up in arms when the drivers drove past Daniel Ricciardo’s swinging McLaren at the Italian Grand Prix, and if anything that race being red flagged would have been ideal for the show. But it wasn’t needed, simple as that, because everyone could see the tractor. On Sunday in Japan, the drivers could barely see their noses.

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