If Max was out of spec you can bet there would be a witch hunt on.
It's not even the driver that's at fault, it's the team who likely made a mistake.
Poll: Official 2023 United States Grand Prix Thread - Circuit of the Americas, Austin - Round 19
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It's not even the driver that's at fault, it's the team who likely made a mistake.
100%, parts like that should be in inventory unlike fuel, etc. which would need to be drained. Having a back-to-back doesn't help either.
Not really. Leclerc got disqualified for the same thing, and looked dog slow/seemed to have poor degredation.
If you read the thread properly it was actually Bug One that suggested someone from RB was on the blower to get those cars checked. But you know, carry on
Charles had a 1 stop though? Ferrari race pace is also notoriously worse than their quali.
Gutted for Lewis.
Thought he made good progress towards getting p2 in the championship today, but no I guess that will go to Perez who absolutely doesn't deserve it after being utterly awful most of the season.
Mercedes management/strategy teams showing how **** they are again.
Thought he made good progress towards getting p2 in the championship today, but no I guess that will go to Perez who absolutely doesn't deserve it after being utterly awful most of the season.
Mercedes management/strategy teams showing how **** they are again.
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Wasn't that because he tried a 1 stop though.
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Did anyone else notice them throwing Danny Ric out on a set of softs to get that fastest lap away from Hamilton near the end.
That's some tinfoil hat level thought process. He pitted because there was a huge chunk of debris in his front left.
https://imgur.com/a/mUduGer
His car was also compromised for most of the race:
Tost: "For Daniel, in the first stint the front left brake duct broke, affecting the aerodynamics heavily, and losing a lot of downforce…the car was no longer balanced. I apologise to Daniel for this failure…in Mexico hopefully the car will be reliable [for] a strong qualifying and good race."
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Especially if 50% of the cars they checked show the issue.
How do they know it wasn't this specific track causing potential issues?
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That makes more sense. Is a bit early to have to worry about that point effecting Perez's P2 in the championship.
Especially when it could influence championship places.
Imagine if it was for the WDC.
You check one of the 2,... DSQ and other isn't but should also be DSQed
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I think the planks and other checks should be run on all top 10 runners.
"A physical floor and a plank wear inspection was carried out on car numbers 01, 16, 44 and 04."
The list of things checked is quite long. My beef is the nature of how this check was done in particular under these circumstances as this track on a sprint weekend. It's a very bumpy track. You've supposedly randomly* checked 4 cars. You've then found 50% of that sample size to be at fault. Given that this was the ONLY check failed throughout a vast list of checks, surely you then go and check every car's floor?
Why single out 2 cars? On that basis, half the pack may have had floors too worn away and then they could have taken the opportunity to wave it this week due to exceptional circumstances, unless they particularly want to disqualify half the grid. It would be a bad look for F1.
*Randomly after liaising with Horner
The list of things checked is quite long. My beef is the nature of how this check was done in particular under these circumstances as this track on a sprint weekend. It's a very bumpy track. You've supposedly randomly* checked 4 cars. You've then found 50% of that sample size to be at fault. Given that this was the ONLY check failed throughout a vast list of checks, surely you then go and check every car's floor?
Why single out 2 cars? On that basis, half the pack may have had floors too worn away and then they could have taken the opportunity to wave it this week due to exceptional circumstances, unless they particularly want to disqualify half the grid. It would be a bad look for F1.
*Randomly after liaising with Horner
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At the very least, their team mate should be.
Yuki got it in the end but he was on for points so it matters to AT in their fight with Haas.
Except they pitted Tsunoda to do exactly the same thing and he got it... So it's hardly tinfoil hat is it.
Indeed. Like I've said 3 times in this thread the track looked bumpy for everyone. Every chance it could have affected everyone's floors, or at least a high proportion.
It's Mickey mouse level stuff this. Why on earth is George and Carlos allowed to get away with a check? Ridiculous.
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