Lewis Hamilton unable to defend himself in the media due to disqualification in GP of the United Statesbecause it was announced a few hours after the race in Austin, but a few days later, he did not miss the opportunity to give his opinion and criticize the way the FIA works.
The Englishman and Leclerc were disqualified from the American event for not complying with the minimum size of the wooden planks located under the car. The FIA conducts many tests of the cars after the races, but it is impossible to check all the parameters of all the competitors. And in this case, only the wooden floors of the Verstappen, Hamilton, Norris and Leclerc cars were analyzed. Two of them were excluded because they did not pass that measurement test. so, According to Hamilton, if the inspectors had checked more cars, they would have found more illegal ones.
“They only measured a few cars and 50 percent of them were disqualified. There are many more cars from other illegal drivers”Hamilton told ‘Saky Sports’.
“‘Skid’ is not a performance element. Of course, if you have a flat surface, everyone will push their car to go as low as possible… some cars handle bumps more better than others and we know that we have had a very tough and bumpy car for the last two years. But in the end it didn’t comply with the regulations and that has to change. EThe sport had an incredible weekend, there was great participation and a great race. Every time we take steps forward in the sport, something like this really infects it.”said the British, very critical of this type of regulations and the way they are applied.
“I hope they (FIA) learn a little for the future, instead of checking everything and disqualifying more than 50 percent of the cars, which, I would put all my money on that happened,” added he.
“Maybe, on a sprint weekend, we should change the scaffold, for example, on Saturday night. This way you can avoid us having this kind of ridiculous event on Sunday.”commented on a weekend format that does not allow changes to the cars from the end of Free Practice 1, when they enter the parc ferme for the whole weekend.
Hamilton said this millimeter “doesn’t affect”
In this sense, Hamilton defends himself against those who might think that he has damaged his bottom more because he wants to drive his car less than other drivers. Furthermore, he emphasized that the millimeter that may exceed the limit will not affect the performance of the car in any way.
“It depends on where you have the downforce… in some cars the downforce is very low, in others you add more. For example, last year we were very low and stiff, but we bounced back. This year we have developed more there is a lot of downforce at a higher ride height, so we actually look for higher ride heights. But there are some tracks where you have low speed corners where sometimes it works better when it is a little bit lower,” he argued.
“One millimeter is not a performance factor, no matter what you do. It’s not like the ground tilts and gives us extra downforce or anything like that. It’s terrible on pianos. If we lifted the car a millimeter or a half or whatever, it wouldn’t make a difference except that we passed the checkpoints. But it is what it is”, he concluded, making it clear that the penalty was disproportionate in relation to the violation he committed by failing to fulfill the FIA’s final control by a millimeter or half.
Source: La Verdad
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