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Blimey.
Oh wow.
Not a big fan of Russell. But that is harsh. Could explain how he survived being chased down though.
Very harsh way of losing a win
That'll properly feck up my fantasy if he's disqualified!
That'll properly feck up my fantasy if he's disqualified!
How’s that happened then? Very odd to be caught out like in this day and age.
How would that be possible? Too low on fuel?
that’s why the best drivers always void their bowels in the cockpit and kick it out of the bottom of their trousers. you never know when you might an extra 250 grams or so in the car.
So was the weight of the car always under the threshold? Like this doesn't include fuel consumption?
Just read, hit min weight but there was fuel in the car that wasn’t drained out properly according the procedure, once they took the fuel out, didn’t hit the min weight.
Classic Mercedes cheating
Sounds like it, very shoddy from Mercedes who appear to have been aware of that fact and seemed to try to play clever about to try and get around it too!
Assuming Hamilton’s car is legal, just flat out weird they’d let Russell win the race knowing this.
they’re going to weigh george’s personality to see if it gets them over the limit.
WOW massive cock up if true
Ted on his notebook on Sky seems to be hinting Russell has been disqualified
It’s a slam dunk really.
will they make geroge wring his suit out and drip the champagne back into the bottle?
Wow just switched over to watch from Olympics
Same here
Should weigh his ego will take him over the limit surely.
There's no doubt about it really. 105 for Hamilton.
I think others might have complained seeing he did a one stopper. Really bizarre! I am not,a fan of his but this cruel if true
If he is disqualified, I will be genuinely gutted for him he worked for that win and Lewis will not want to win by disqualification.
Ted saying 1.5kg under weight
Ted saying 1.5kg under weight
He will get a DQ they don't feck around with that rule.
1.5 Kg is quite a bit
depends whether it’s 1.5kg of water or something more dense like 1.5kg of lead.
It is Hard to defend it
Probably worth a couple of seconds over a race distance.
Do they still count fuel within the weight ? Surely they would have told him to pick up rubber on the in lap he was going to be down on weight.
He obviously won't care.
I think he might , yes a win is a win but even Lewis won’t want a win like this
Car needs to be drained and there’s no in lap at Spa, so can’t pick up rubber. I think Mercedes didn’t think George would be on the podium, played fast and loose with their calcs and now have been pinged because he won.
I need to find out more but I noticed when Lewis/Leclerc got pinged for plank wear at Austin a while back, not all the cars are scrutineered to the same extent post race.
I believe as has been mentioned in earlier posts that fuel amount is irrelevant
Technical delegate's report
"After the Race, car number 63 [Russell] was weighed and its weight was 798.0 kg, which is the minimum weight required by TR Article 4.1.
"After this, fuel was drained out of the car and 2.8 litres of fuel were removed. The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.
"The car was weighed again on the FIA inside and outside scales and the weight was 796.5 kg.
"The calibration of the outside and inside scales was confirmed and witnessed by the competitor. As this is 1.5 kg below the minimum weight requested in TR Article 4.1, which also has to be respected at all times during the Competition, I am referring this matter to the Stewards for their consideration."
"After the Race, car number 63 [Russell] was weighed and its weight was 798.0 kg, which is the minimum weight required by TR Article 4.1.
"After this, fuel was drained out of the car and 2.8 litres of fuel were removed. The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.
"The car was weighed again on the FIA inside and outside scales and the weight was 796.5 kg.
"The calibration of the outside and inside scales was confirmed and witnessed by the competitor. As this is 1.5 kg below the minimum weight requested in TR Article 4.1, which also has to be respected at all times during the Competition, I am referring this matter to the Stewards for their consideration."
Do they only weigh cars on the podium?
Can't remember the exact figure but 10KG was around 0.5 seconds on a lap time so I doubt this would have had a massive effect.
Apparently tyre wear us the reason or could be the reason he is underweight