r/F1Technical • u/some_guy30 • Jul 28 '24

Regulations Hypothetically, if Russel crashed the car just after he won, would he have evaded disqualification?

I know there is no cooldown lap at spa, so assume Russel just crashes on the straight. He loses significant amounts of his car. Would he retain the win, as his car wouldn’t be weighed (or if it is weighed, it would obviously be below min weight but for good reason I.e. pieces of car have come off) ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

Has anyone managed the 44 laps at Spa with only 1 tyre change? Given the weight of the tyres / wheels now I can see how the discrepancy could have occured - the comment came from someone "high up" within F1.

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u/Select_Worldliness94 Jul 29 '24

Quite hard to find the stats now after the commotion yesterday.. but never mind Spa when has it ever happened? They used fuel as a ballast and got caught out and are using tyres to avoid further penalties like Brawn did

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u/fastf1cars Jul 29 '24

They didn't use fuel as ballast because they know the car will be drained by the procedure the teams submit for homologation and the weight is calculated without fuel on board.

As for "it's hard to find the stats now," no, it is not. Alonso did a one-stop yesterday and his car was legal.

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u/Select_Worldliness94 Jul 29 '24

They normally only take a 1L sample.. this time they decided to drain it and found a breach in Mercedes SOP.

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u/fastf1cars Jul 29 '24

Perhaps you have it inverted and they decided to drain it fully because it was so close to the weight limit that they needed to be sure, when normally they have enough information to say that removing the remaining fuel would not put it under the weight limit?