Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were excluded from the result of the last weekend's race in Austin after their underfloor planks were found to have worn away more than the allowed limit. The FIA initially planned to only check Hamilton and Leclerc's cars, but expanded the checks to other cars due to concerns of a wider problem.
Hamilton and Leclerc were excluded from the result of last weekend’s race in Austin after scrutineering checks discovered that their underfloor planks had worn away by more than the 1mm that is allowed in the rulebook. While there was no dispute that both cars were outside of the regulations, the subsequent emergence that the FIA only checked four cars in total prompted some intrigue about whether or not more competitors should have been looked at.
“So, we decided to then select another two teams, and we selected another two cars, which happened to be Verstappen and Norris and check those. “After we checked those two cars, then we found those two were the right side of the limit and all fine.” While the FIA was happy to stop its checks after examining cars from four teams, the 50% fail rate still led many to suggest that the governing body should have checked the entire grid before promoting drivers up the order.
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