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George Russell has been disqualified from the race for an underweight car (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by alphacyberranger to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So this is on Mercedes for miscalculating the weight and a DSQ is only fair.

However, this whole tyre weight and marble pickup thing seems so silly:

You pick up a different amount of marbles depending on track length (or no in-lap like in Spa), rain can wash them away, if you do a long stint your tyres have less rubber left on them. Tyres are standardized, identical between all teams for the whole season and Pirelli knows exactly how much they weigh brand new. After the race FIA could just weigh the car without wheels. I'm assuming right now teams are leaving a slight weight margin, so they would be able to run even closer to the limit if they didn't have to worry about tyre weight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The fact is several other drivers did a one stop without running into the weight issue and in the past, we have had drivers do almost the whole race distance on a set of tyres after switching to a hard after an early safety car(lap 2 or 3). Never in those cases has the car been underweight. This is a cock up by Mercedes and nobody else.