Re: SPOILER: Chinese GP 2025

On 24/03/2025 10:50, ~misfit~ wrote:

On 24/03/2025 5:37 am, John Milner wrote:

DQ'd:
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Hamilton (plank wear), Leclerc and Gasly (underweight car)
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Not a good day for Hamilton...
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"Let Charles past!"
"Only when he's on my gearbox"
"Do it this lap!" (leaving the '...or else...' hanging in the air).

 I found it really odd that Leclerc's car was weighed with a new front wing. After the accident on the first lap, with the wing flexing so much I fully expected a meatball flag when they didn't change the wing during the pitstop.

Martin Brundle commented on this at the time, on Sky Sports. Apparently it's OK under the regs to replace damaged parts before the weigh-in, presumably because the loss wasn't intentional.
Interestingly, the downforce was lost from the front left, which surely helped this stressed tyre, thus giving Charles an advantage at towards the end.

What do y'all think? I know it wasn't dangerous but the car wasn't meeting the specs vis-a-vis flexible aero. It was obviously shedding drag at speed while still sitting in it's normal position and providing downforce for slow corners.

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John Milner