HAAS - Grosjean Floor

[rscott]

Krikkit said:

ralphrj said:

Perhaps the floor is an item with a long lead time and the FIA was prepared to allow it rather than lose Haas from the grid for a few races.

It does take a while, but their supplier wouldn't be bound by the shutdown, and hence had weeks to prepare a new floor.

I suspect they concluded that they couldn't specifically be penalised as it was a technical directive, and plumped with the wrong choice.

Probably only had one compliant floor, so ran the illegal one on Grosjean as they assumed he'd almost certainly crash and there'd be nothing left for FIA to check after the race.

[Exige77]

Haas don’t agree with the exclusion and have lodged an appeal.

Let’s see what the guys with rulers say.

[Derek Smith]

Exige77 said:

Haas don’t agree with the exclusion and have lodged an appeal.

Let’s see what the guys with rulers say.

I see what you did there.

[andburg]

Anyone seen anything that says whether they've replaced the floor for this weekend?

[MB140]

NFC 85 Vette said:

This is as good an explanation as I've seen for the exclusion (Autosport YT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48fttPKFDKY

That’s a cracking explanation. Thanks for that.

[Exige77]

NFC 85 Vette said:

This is as good an explanation as I've seen for the exclusion (Autosport YT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48fttPKFDKY

Good explanation. Thx for posting

[Exige77]

Hearing in early November

[Kraken]

Seems like Haas' appeal is on procedural matters not being followed rather than trying to say their floor was actually legal. They put their own chances at 50-50.

[Teddy Lop]

Kraken said:

Seems like Haas' appeal is on procedural matters not being followed rather than trying to say their floor was actually legal. They put their own chances at 50-50.

just being bad sports about it aren't they, which is sad given they were given grace to amend their dodgy car in the first place rather than being barred outright.

[Jasandjules]

Teddy Lop said:

Kraken said:

Seems like Haas' appeal is on procedural matters not being followed rather than trying to say their floor was actually legal. They put their own chances at 50-50.

just being bad sports about it aren't they, which is sad given they were given grace to amend their dodgy car in the first place rather than being barred outright.

Said on Sky during FP (whichever one) that it was impossible for them to get a new floor in time to comply. And that they did not feel it was a breach of the rules in any event.