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      11 months ago

      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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          11 months ago

          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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              11 months ago

              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.

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                  11 months ago

                  I suppose you fail to understand the reason why formula 1 has the plank

                  I suppose you also fail to understand why checking every single part of every single car on the grid every race to ensure their legality every race would be insane and barely possible. Even if not checking all the planks in hindsight seems like such an obvious idea, with this attitude you can extend to literary any part of the car, and would have to, for all of them.

                  Perhaps you fail to understand that no matter if f1 is the “pinnacle of motorsport”, it’s lead by humans, who make mistakes. Perhaps you would like the AI to take over the lead?

                  One thing I do understand is the fact that arguing with you is completely useless and a waste of my time, as you can’t get over being a smug dickhead.