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Ferrari's application to have the replacement PU, ES and CE for Sainz not counted against their allocation denied (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago

Okay, I'm not up on all the details of F1, but that sounds fucking stupid!

The track was literally faulty, the driver/car/team didn't do anything wrong, they shouldn't be punished.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s the US. Sue the City for compensatory damages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What a corporate distopian hell hole.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Of all the teams. This happens to Ferrari. Without bad luck, they have no luck at all.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, no exceptions should be made for these kind of cases. It's just bad luck, and it sucks for Sainz. But we need coherence in regulations enforcement from the stewards.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's not bad luck. It is incompetence by FOM resulting in massive damage to a team. People hosting the race(FOM in this case) should be aware of these things and ensure than drain cover failures like these don't happen

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

FIA supervise that the track complies with the requirements. I think this one's on the FIA... (and they have precedents, so this could've been avoided).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

But..... money.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It wasn't a drain cover though. If you put a shelf up onto a wall, and then when you load up the shelf the wall falls over. That's not on you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It wasn't a drain cover though

Well the formula 1 article refers to it as a drain cover. It did look more like a cap but since I don't know the technical term, I went with what the official article referred to it as.

If you put a shelf up onto a wall, and then when you load up the shelf the wall falls over. That's not on you.

It is on you if you are the one who designed the shelf and decided to fix it at point of the wall without measuring if the wall could handle the load. It is different matter if you had a carpenter to build and install the shelf. In that it is his/her responsibility to ensure that the wall can handle a loaded shelf. In this case, since FOM are hosting the race, it is completely their responsibility that shit like this does not happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/07/794281632/ikea-reaches-46-million-settlement-over-death-of-toddler-killed-by-dresser-tip-o

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you ask a a shelf building company to build you a shelf. You tell them the expected weight of items stored will be pretty extreme. Then the shelf fails from extreme weight.

surprised Pikachu face

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

expected

And there's the issue a lot of you are willingly ignoring. That seal could have been rated for 1000 whatever units, but put in under 1001 units with cars scraping over the top. Of course it'll fail.