Yes, by having a parc ferme from Friday morning on a bumpy track that’s been patched like a quilt. When you have a 50% fail rate from more than one team…
You can’t just extrapolate a datapoint from 4 to 20 and expect to keep the fail rate constant. I don’t exactly like the sprint format either, but this is not exactly a good argument to scrap it.
They randomly check 4 cars, 2 fail. The check does not take a minute, unlike the weighing of the cars. I could not find the exact figure on how long this test takes to do, but given how precise it is, I would assume a good while.
What are you suggesting to be changed? Are we supposed to hold the award ceremony until every single car is checked to minute detail? Or do we just not do any checks at all?
I get that it’s frustrating to see 2 drivers get dsq’d for seemingly minor reasons, but rules are rules. Especially after the 2021 controversy.
The fact that 2 cars of 4 have been found illegal is unprecedented but not impossible.
By the time those checks have been made, cars have already been disassembled, if not on trucks, and heading to Mexico.
In order to check every single part of every single car, every single race would require FIA to have much more staff that they have currently on every weekend throughout the season. It would require more downtime from already extremely overworked and busy pitcrews to wait for all these checks to be made. Given how hectic their schedules are (especially in double and tipple headers), this kind of thorough search is pretty much impossible.
These checks are made, how they are, for a good reason, and they do their job by the virtue of them being random (in this case not really random, top 4 cars + random cars that were sparking the most). You don’t wanna risk it as if you are found guilty, you are DSQ’d
Because checking planks exactly to 1mm on a multimillon car is comparable to checking a fucking skateboard, sure.
It’s very easy to say “WHY THE HELL DID THEY NOT CHECK ALL THE CARS!!!1!1” in retrospect, but you understand the fact that cars that were not about to be checked were long taken apart before this check even happened. Heck, who knows, maybe they have already been packed in trucks and on the way to Mexico.
The fact that 50% of the cars didn’t pass is fucking unprecedented. Is FIA supposed to predict the future or something? Or are they gonna learn from their mistake and perhaps change their prosedure, something that they pretty consistently done in the past.
Now it is true that the teams had only 90 minutes to prepare and having parc ferme since friday is dumb as hell, but it’s up to the teams to not break the technical rules. Redbull and McLaren didn’t. Ferrari and Mercedes did. Simple as that.
Are you suggesting it’s F1/FIA fault that 2 cars broke the few clearly stated rules? Floor plank height rule is there for a reason.
Yes, by having a parc ferme from Friday morning on a bumpy track that’s been patched like a quilt. When you have a 50% fail rate from more than one team…
You can’t just extrapolate a datapoint from 4 to 20 and expect to keep the fail rate constant. I don’t exactly like the sprint format either, but this is not exactly a good argument to scrap it.
On a sprint weekend where the plank gets 19 more laps of abuse than an average race? Yes, yes you can.
No, you can’t.
Teams knew that it would be a sprint weekend. Teams knew Austin is bumpy as hell. Teams therefore knew that the floor would get 19 more laps of abuse.
Mercedes has already admitted fault and I doubt either them or ferrari will appeal this. It was their mistake.
I like shitting on FIA as much as the next guy, but why shit on them for stupid reasons?
Gee, if only they’d tested…
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They randomly check 4 cars, 2 fail. The check does not take a minute, unlike the weighing of the cars. I could not find the exact figure on how long this test takes to do, but given how precise it is, I would assume a good while.
What are you suggesting to be changed? Are we supposed to hold the award ceremony until every single car is checked to minute detail? Or do we just not do any checks at all?
I get that it’s frustrating to see 2 drivers get dsq’d for seemingly minor reasons, but rules are rules. Especially after the 2021 controversy.
It’s the anti-porpoising regulation. It’s there so drivers don’t get health issues in a 100 minute race from bumping a thousand times.
Thank you for the clarification
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The fact that 2 cars of 4 have been found illegal is unprecedented but not impossible.
By the time those checks have been made, cars have already been disassembled, if not on trucks, and heading to Mexico.
In order to check every single part of every single car, every single race would require FIA to have much more staff that they have currently on every weekend throughout the season. It would require more downtime from already extremely overworked and busy pitcrews to wait for all these checks to be made. Given how hectic their schedules are (especially in double and tipple headers), this kind of thorough search is pretty much impossible.
These checks are made, how they are, for a good reason, and they do their job by the virtue of them being random (in this case not really random, top 4 cars + random cars that were sparking the most). You don’t wanna risk it as if you are found guilty, you are DSQ’d
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It’s clear you didn’t read my comment either.
Enforcing this rule fully, the way you imagine is practically impossible. But the rule is necessary to stop excessive porpoising.
Calm down.
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Because checking planks exactly to 1mm on a multimillon car is comparable to checking a fucking skateboard, sure.
It’s very easy to say “WHY THE HELL DID THEY NOT CHECK ALL THE CARS!!!1!1” in retrospect, but you understand the fact that cars that were not about to be checked were long taken apart before this check even happened. Heck, who knows, maybe they have already been packed in trucks and on the way to Mexico.
The fact that 50% of the cars didn’t pass is fucking unprecedented. Is FIA supposed to predict the future or something? Or are they gonna learn from their mistake and perhaps change their prosedure, something that they pretty consistently done in the past.
Now it is true that the teams had only 90 minutes to prepare and having parc ferme since friday is dumb as hell, but it’s up to the teams to not break the technical rules. Redbull and McLaren didn’t. Ferrari and Mercedes did. Simple as that.