Here is that email from a blog reader in full!!! Whatever anyone says, one thing is for sure, the rules do need to be reworked just a tad, for the next time shumi cheats :-).
Email:
Following your blog, article 40.13 of the regulations:
"If the race ends while the safety car is deployed it will enter the pit
lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as
normal without overtaking."
The safety car was brought in electively by choice on that lap (which
happened to be the last lap) as a result of the track becoming green.
Everybody rightly began racing and Schumacher overtook a sleeping Alonso
fairly. Since the safety car had become "undeployed" and this had been
signalled to all teams in advance, the race did NOT end whilst the safety
car was deployed and thus the above rule does not apply.
If on the contrary the track remained unsafe and the safety car was required
to remain out, the track would not have become green. In this situation, the
above rule would apply and the safety car would still come into the pits on
the last lap. However, racing would not recommence and overtaking would not
be allowed.
The rule is badly written and needs sorting.
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