or the result of a logic coding problem the system just implemented because the conditions left it going down the wrong decision tree path. There was clearly some oddness with the position of the safety car line and the longer than normal pit lane, as Sainz/Williams managed to fall foul of getting out of sync on the number of laps( which I thought had happened earlier in the season too) theyd done, so mistakenly unlapped themselves when they shouldnt, but were just following what the system was telling them which turned out to be wrong.
because I think race control is well past people pressing buttons in reactions to things, and its far more automated with all that cloud software stuff they keep advertising during the race, it would have to be with so many lights and signals to send to all the marshall posts, all the track limits stuff, the speed in the pit lane monitoring
I do think F1 misses a trick though by not having their race director communicate to the teams on tv as we see or I guess hear in WEC. though there was that funny system timing glitch at Le Mans qualifying too (one teams timing system told them they could enter the pitlane, everyone elses was telling them they couldnt) which again shows this alot more system led, than people thesedays, as they had to unpick what had happened there, then delay hyperpole because the system hadnt got enough data checkpoints to allow them to proceed.
