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DNF & Reliability

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"Did Not Finish" covers any car that doesn't complete the race, and reliability is a real performance factor in its own right.

DNF stands for Did Not Finish. It covers any car that doesn't complete the race distance, whether from a mechanical failure, a crash, or the team retiring it for safety or damage reasons.

Reliability, how rarely a car or power unit breaks under race conditions, is a real competitive factor on its own, separate from outright pace. A fast car that doesn't finish scores nothing, while a slower, dependable one can keep racking up points race after race.

Because failures and incidents are inherently hard to foresee, they're a core reason no prediction, ours included, can promise a result. A DNF can rewrite a race's finishing order regardless of how accurate the pace or strategy read was going in.

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