El Scorchio wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 14:54
Thanks! I wonder what their evidence could be. I’d have thought anything less than being able to produce the required amount of fuel from the engine under supervision would be brushed off. Really not sure what other avenues they could go down. You have to say it’s **** luck if it genuinely is in there somewhere and they just can’t extract it because of some fault. Surely though it’s more likely a sensor or something failed and they thought they were good on fuel but were not. Perhaps if it’s an FIA component they could argue it’s not their fault it failed?
Going through the stewards' report it can't be:
- the claim that the calculations say there's 1.44L left
- the claim that they did not have a performance advantage
I don't see how they could find new evidence without working on the car, but we know that teams will claim to have convincing evidence and then it ends up being a complete embarrassment.
If they did have access they could have successfully extracted the fuel or at least found proof that the pump was indeed faulty, i don't see how anything else would be relevant.
The regs however mention the possibility to use an external pump, so maybe the entire argument about a faulty internal pump could be irrelevant.
We'll probably have to wait two more days to learn more.