BTCC - Round Two - Donington Park
Discussion
l354uge said:
Indeed - because he was hit from behind. Their claim is that there was damage to the car from when Cook hit the car from behind before the red flag, and this is what has affected the ride height. Whether that is the case or not, I don't know - I'm not a scrutineer.l354uge said:
The damage (if any) would be more chassis, subframe, suspension etc, rather than bodywork. They may not have been able to check if the damage itself was caused before the first red flag, not sure if they can tweak and refine suspension settings whilst on the grid for a restart, but rules are rules.lucido grigio said:
Apart from the red flagged first lap,I missed race 3.
Did Shedden keep the win or not ?
BTCC site doesn't mention any exclusion.
Excluded - https://twitter.com/DunlopBTCC/status/853684105283...Did Shedden keep the win or not ?
BTCC site doesn't mention any exclusion.
The scrutineers will take any accident damage into consideration.
That infringement is not from accident damage.
I've seen it on other championships where the cars have to drive over something of 75mm height (or whatever the regs say), but again, if the car was damaged and something was forced downward, exhaust for example, following a rear end shunt, the scrutineers would have accounted for it.
This is just an example of good old rule bending and they've been caught!
That infringement is not from accident damage.
I've seen it on other championships where the cars have to drive over something of 75mm height (or whatever the regs say), but again, if the car was damaged and something was forced downward, exhaust for example, following a rear end shunt, the scrutineers would have accounted for it.
This is just an example of good old rule bending and they've been caught!
Robmarriott said:
The scrutineers will take any accident damage into consideration.
That infringement is not from accident damage.
I've seen it on other championships where the cars have to drive over something of 75mm height (or whatever the regs say), but again, if the car was damaged and something was forced downward, exhaust for example, following a rear end shunt, the scrutineers would have accounted for it.
This is just an example of good old rule bending and they've been caught!
I dunno. It's possible, certainly, but I don't think they're so dumb that they would deliberately give the car too low a ride height in a race they had an excellent chance to win - it's literally the first thing that's checked when you pull into parc ferme. I think it's more likely someone made a mistake, and I would say the same about Sutton's overboost problem yesterday. Sophisticated rule-bending has gone on for for years in motorsport - I just don't see big high-profile teams cheating that incompetently.That infringement is not from accident damage.
I've seen it on other championships where the cars have to drive over something of 75mm height (or whatever the regs say), but again, if the car was damaged and something was forced downward, exhaust for example, following a rear end shunt, the scrutineers would have accounted for it.
This is just an example of good old rule bending and they've been caught!
There's no way it's from crash damage.
If it wasn't blatant cheating, it was a miscalculation.
Sutton and Cook were excluded last year for rear wing angle... someone presumably measured it wrong.
This would probably have been someone setting the ride height on the wet setup using last years notes, this years tyre is wider but may have a lower sidewall profile, that could have made the difference and it's an easy mistake to make, the mechanics are human after all!
You also need to bear in mind everyone in this championship runs the cars as close to the regs as they can, they'll be as low as they can to the mm, theyll run them as close to minimum weigh as they can, calculating fuel loads and everything to get them as light as they can, after the race when they checks are done, sometimes they've guessed incorrectly and it's too low, too light, not got enough wing or has too much boost.
It happens in every championship under the sun, exclusion from a race due to invisible crash damage doesn't!
If it wasn't blatant cheating, it was a miscalculation.
Sutton and Cook were excluded last year for rear wing angle... someone presumably measured it wrong.
This would probably have been someone setting the ride height on the wet setup using last years notes, this years tyre is wider but may have a lower sidewall profile, that could have made the difference and it's an easy mistake to make, the mechanics are human after all!
You also need to bear in mind everyone in this championship runs the cars as close to the regs as they can, they'll be as low as they can to the mm, theyll run them as close to minimum weigh as they can, calculating fuel loads and everything to get them as light as they can, after the race when they checks are done, sometimes they've guessed incorrectly and it's too low, too light, not got enough wing or has too much boost.
It happens in every championship under the sun, exclusion from a race due to invisible crash damage doesn't!
oobster said:
Any update on Billy monger?
Only official release I have seen is...http://www.btcc.net/2017/04/16/statement-on-behalf...
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