Random check doesn't look very random when it's the top 4 cars
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Max Verstappen steadily progressed through the field after starting from 6th and managed a braking issue to win the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, making it 50 wins in his F1 career. Lewis Hamilton finished a close second and praised his car's improvements. Lando Norris completed the podium for McLaren.
Car 1 is max so he has been fortunately.
Top 4!organic wrote: ↑23 Oct 2023, 01:39Car 1 is max so he has been fortunately.
Edit: as AR3-GP POINTS OUT
this indicates that Max, Lewis, Lando's and sainz were all checked. They claim the selection is random however the top 3 being randomly selected is quite unlikely statistically
So they found issues with 50% of the cars checked.A physical floor and a plank wear inspection was carried out on car numbers 01, 16, 44 and 04.
Apart from the rear skids of car numbers 16 and 44 (see Document 60), all car weights and the
items checked were found to be in conformity with the 2023 FIA Formula One Technical Regulations.
Confirmed DSQ.
McLaren’s impressive pace on the first day of testing in Jerez in February was generated by a mistake when the car was being put together in the factory, Martin Whitmarsh has confirmed to this blog.
A suspension component was fitted incorrectly to the new car – apparently it was simply the wrong way round – and the unexpectedly low ride height that resulted happened to work well at the Spanish track. Button set the pace that day, suggesting that the MP4-28 could be the car to beat.
However once the mistake was discovered that night, it was rectified, as the car could not be run in that state long term at other venue, especially with heavy fuel loads.
Since then the team has struggled to get close to that initial performance, leading rivals and other observers to wonder just why the McLaren had been so impressive out of the box.
On Friday in Australia Jenson Button pinpointed the issue by saying: “We had a set-up we didn’t think we had. It wasn’t one we could work with.”
A little investigation has revealed that it wasn’t simply a question of a miscalculation of settings, but a part being fitted wrongly.
“It was a part fitted incorrectly which caused us to run the car unrealistically low, that happened to play to the strengths of the car,” Whitmarsh confirmed when asked by this blog. “It wouldn’t work on a bumpy circuit like this. That’s why the car at the moment is too peaky in its performance, and that’s something we’ve got to resolve. It was a set-up which on many tracks was not realistic.”
It's not clear that the cars of Sainz and Russell were checked. I do not believe they have been. More cars could have potentially been running in an illegal configuration. The sad day for the sport is those who will go unpunished since the FIA did not check all cars. Sainz and Russell should be checked.