https://www.motorsportweek.com/2023/10/26/fia-issue-clarity-over-hamilton-and-leclerc-us-gp-disqualifications/ Your daily source of motorsport news, features, results and images Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://www.motorsportweek.com/2023/10/26/fia-issue-clarity-over-hamilton-and-leclerc-us-gp-disqualifications/#comment-56235 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:07:40 +0000 https://www.motorsportweek.com/?p=132208#comment-56235 I say this not as a fan of any particular team. My belief, for any car, is that if your out of the regulations your out. But it seems the purpose of the legality check as implemented today is to catch willful cheating and not a car going out of compliance due to anything else, willful or not. If a predetermined threshold is met then there should be trigger points where more cars are inspected. This could even be cascading. For example, 2 of 4 random cars show problems, the pool gets expanded to a total of 8 cars (random). If 4 of those cars (2 additional cars) show problems then the whole field is checked, or if time is an issue the checks are thrown out (free pass).

]]> https://www.motorsportweek.com/2023/10/26/fia-issue-clarity-over-hamilton-and-leclerc-us-gp-disqualifications/#comment-56207 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:21:49 +0000 https://www.motorsportweek.com/?p=132208#comment-56207 I would have thought that if a random sample of four cars (from 17) returns a 50% failure then statistically at least another 6 or 7 cars should show excessive plank wear. At least it would be prudent of the FIA to check the sister cars of Charles Leclerk and Lewis Hamilton (Carlos Sainz and George Russel) as these would have been set up in a similar manner to the cars that failed the wear test. To single out two cars for penalties when statistically there are likely to be many more at fault is deplorable.

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