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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
It's my understanding that the FIA only checks four cars at every race, selected completely at random, and that no one has been disqualified on this since the 1990's.
I would guess that this was a calculated risk, that the teams knew the cars were too low and just assumed they would not get caught. I would be surprised to learn that any team at this level would make such a "mistake". I wonder how much of a performance advantage they gained. Could Lewis have caught Lando without this advantage? Maybe George's performance answers that question.
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Plank has several 50mm legality through holes in prescribed positions, thickness is only measured around these holes
Thickness rule is simple plank has to be 10mm +/-1mm through out the race event
When designing the skids you are limited by a specified minimum area per skid, shape and position of skids is free
If you run nose down, more skids are needed to protect the front legality hole but these modern F1 car run faster flatter to the ground so skids are still biased towards the front but now the rear legality hole needs a little wear protection too
Mercedes and Ferrari are having to run a more aggressive on the limit set up to try and keep with RBR
Only mistake both teams made is they over stepped the limit, F1 is all about pushing all the limits