HAAS - Grosjean Floor
Discussion
I've just seen they are appealing the decision.
Timeline seems to be
During summer break their floor was deemed to be illegal and they were told to change it by Monza in 3 weeks time.
Raced with the floor (i expect) in Spa (not protested)
Raced with the floor in Monza and protested by Renault
Their defence seems to be they didnt have time to make a legal floor in time for Monza.
Another team, not named also had the same issue but rectified it in time for Monza.
Now i don't see what ground they have to appeal given they did race with an illegal floor.
What concerns me most is that the FIA allowed them to race with it once it was declared illegal, surely if the floor is declared illegal and its not changed it should be illegal for all future races as a minimum. Allowing the team to race with a future fix it is surely the wrong message to be sending! I expect the FIA fix it by Monza message prevented the floor being protested in Spa.
Harsh but for racing a floor they knew was illegal I think they should be excluded from all races they used it. Given it was declared illegal over the summer means it would have been used at least as far back as Hungary.
edit to add: thats 2 teams given a pass to run illegal parts, i wonder how many teams are actually within the regulations.
Timeline seems to be
During summer break their floor was deemed to be illegal and they were told to change it by Monza in 3 weeks time.
Raced with the floor (i expect) in Spa (not protested)
Raced with the floor in Monza and protested by Renault
Their defence seems to be they didnt have time to make a legal floor in time for Monza.
Another team, not named also had the same issue but rectified it in time for Monza.
Now i don't see what ground they have to appeal given they did race with an illegal floor.
What concerns me most is that the FIA allowed them to race with it once it was declared illegal, surely if the floor is declared illegal and its not changed it should be illegal for all future races as a minimum. Allowing the team to race with a future fix it is surely the wrong message to be sending! I expect the FIA fix it by Monza message prevented the floor being protested in Spa.
Harsh but for racing a floor they knew was illegal I think they should be excluded from all races they used it. Given it was declared illegal over the summer means it would have been used at least as far back as Hungary.
edit to add: thats 2 teams given a pass to run illegal parts, i wonder how many teams are actually within the regulations.
Edited by andburg on Monday 3rd September 09:48
kambites said:
Heartworm said:
kambites said:
I'm a bit confused. It seems that Haas's defense was that they couldn't get the part produced in time yet according to various sources online they ran a compliant floor in Spa free practice then switched back to the old one for the race... if they couldn't get the part produced in time how did they run it at Spa?
I think they had 1 made in time, used by magnussan, What happened to Magnussan to put him right at the back? I missed that somehow.
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