zibby43 wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 23:47
Juzh wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 23:41
Verstappen broke down 3 laps before the end and we've had a number of laps behind SC, so this theory is complete BS, not worth considering even for 1 second. Not one credible source would indicate lack of fuel based on these facts and no credible journalist who cares about his reputation would tweet such a thing.
The only way in which you could say they ran out of fuel is
because of fuel pump not delivering fuel, but that's not what's implied in that tweet.
I know none of that is directed at me, but just to be clear, sharing a tweet from a credentialed journalist is not an endorsement.
It wasn't, I understand.
I had doubts, which I included in the original post. I wanted to lean toward a misunderstanding of the issue, but the translation said that she was hearing fuel load miscalculation.
This is not red bull's first rodeo. Miscalculation so big with both cars would be complete incompetence and would get picked up mid race. If this actually turns out to be the case then I'm doing a mea culpa, but until then I'm not at all buying this.
As an aside, what are the odds of 2 cars having issues with the fuel pump at virtually the same time in the race?
What’s the common denominator?
This I do not know for certain, but there's been a number of theories presented so far, also in this topic and in Honda PU one. E10 eating trough resin and frying electronics seems plausible, compounded by the earlier struggles trough testing. We can also observe highly irregular flashing lights pattern on Perez' car just after he reported problems, more electrical gremlins.
I've never seen lights flicked in such a way before.