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Originally Posted by SonnyJack
Perhaps at a high speed course, but not at Monaco.
RIC spent 40 - 50 laps behind HAM and was never in a position to pass. Monaco is the same every year and the chicane played no role in RIC being unable to pass.
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You don't need a high speed course, not sure how much competitive racing you've done but this is possibly the most common way I passed cars/karts or bikes. Get them to over cook and brake themselves out of shape and lose momentum and or miss apexes, keep a bit of distance execute the feature whether it's a chicane or regular corner perfectly and sling shot pass the car in front. RIC set it up perfectly and HAM knew he would be in trouble if he tried to make the chicane, he rolled the dice and cut it and it paid off. Good for him, not so much for RIC.
That said race control is in an almost impossible situation here, the escape routes are there for a reason, to make it safer to get out of trouble, they don't want to discourage the use too much by penalizing the car and potentially cause an incident but it also has to be fair, really tough call to make especially on a street circuit. In places like Canada they can make it safe and penalize with sand traps , wish they would cause it's cheating and it sucks to watch.