Anyhoo. Back to the appeal.
I found a couple of interesting bits, to me anyway.
Ricciardo only did 5 laps with consistent measurements below 100kg/h. And they were behind the safety car.
Mercedes vulture shows calculations that Ricciardo gained 0.4s/lap by ignoring the FIA and that the alternative measurement system is a software calculation rather than a hardware measurement based system.
Red Bull chap confirms the 0.4s/lap figure. As for the software model, I'd always take a physical reading over an calculated guess.
Red Bull were asked to change the offset by 1.015% - apparently equalling 0.4s/lap
11:43 Witness Jeff Calam of Red Bull is called. No one has a question for him, not even Paul Harris. General laughter in the hall.
FIA... Arse... Elbow...
2 different sensors used in Australia and Malaysia. During calibration/testing, the only differences in flow across the two different sensors was due to ambient temperatures. So the Australia sensor was working.
Ricciardo's total fuel range from 99.02kg and 103.37kg/h over the 58 laps.
Laps 1-12 show 100.5 to 100.8kg/h
Then safety car when all was ok.
After safety car - 100.4 to 101.1kg/h
And to keep Magnussen at bay it averages 101.0 and 101.1 kg/h
Peak of 3.37% over the 100kg/h limit? So even with the 0.25% accuracy of the sensor, that's still in excess of 2.75% over the limit.
3 sensors failed in Australia.
4 in Malaysia
5 or 6 failed in Bahrain.
Issues from Bahrain have been corrected. There was a seals in them that could be damaged by the fuel, which then killed the sensors themselves. Great..... Any connection to the sensors that failed and the fuels the teams used?
More interesting, Sensors were either working or were completely dead.
"We have found in some cases that when installing the sensors, the threads for the fuel feed lines was drilled so deep that the measurement section is damaged.
Oh dear.... Morons. Now, it depends if the teams or the manufacturer were responsible for cutting the threads. There is the potential for deliberate damage forcing the teams to revert to their preferred software guesstimation which could be more benificial for them. Just a thought.
And Red Bull are still going on about how the engine was running 20° hotter in Malaysia than in Australia, so the sensor comparisons across the two races are completely useless.
I really can't see how Red Bull can win this at this point.
[edit]
Red Bull vulture while questioning FIA chap says that although they did go over the 100kg/h limit, the average was always below that.
FIA chap comes back with it perfectly clearly, you must always be below the 100kg/h limit. If Red Bull had applied the correction, they would have been below the limit.
ZING! Red Bull vulture shoots himself in the foot.
