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

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1.5kg under the limit, according to the FIA. That's a bunch. Major team screwup.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm scratching my head as to how this could happen. This isn't some 0.01 km/h over the pit speed limit "technically a penalty" type thing, 1.5kg is significant.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Almost seems like they forgot to install some ballist

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has to be the new floor, now that I think of it. They had the new floor on Friday, but it preformed poorly so they switched back to the old on Saturday. Maybe the new floor is 1.5kg heavier, and George's side of the garage forgot to adjust the ballast accordingly after they switched back?

Only thing I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Weren't they both running the new floor? That would mean that they both should be underweight?

I suspect they mucked up the driver ballast, minimum driver weight is 80kg, so if you weigh less than that the team have to add ballast. I've heard that they got the ballast the wrong way round between the two cars and Lewis weighs more so his ballast is less...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For some reason I thought George was tall enough to weigh about 80kg on his own, but it seems not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Nah he weighs noticeably less than Lewis as Lewis has always been pretty stacked for a F1 driver and Lewis put on muscle when the weight limit went up