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Originally Posted by Tobra
Mr Higgins, the manhole cover was not bolted to the ground. Seems much more plausible the car bottomed out than suction pulled it out of the ground. If that is the story, the problem is fault of the car, rather than the course. If it was my car, I know what story I would be telling
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I'm not sure which incident you are referring to as Jeff mentioned 2. Pics Show the LV cover to be smaller and a bit taller than a MH cover (I have pulled many) and a butterfly clamp still in place holding part of the receiver which was fractured. We don't know how it was fractured, by cars bottoming or if is was damaged or defective during repaving, or both.
I'll stand by my statement that Ferrari should not have been given a 10 spot penalty for changing chassis. But it does seem to more complicated to allow a team more money for a non fault accident caused by the facility. So maybe let that go. And actually thinking, the grid penalty is subject to the same logic as the financial side. It's a tough call and I'm glad it's not on me.
I can address the new chassis for the next year discussion and maybe Captain can validate. Each team is allowed 2 cars per driver per year and one extra tub. I think also the extra tub is per driver.
After a season of racing the cars need to be retired whether they would be viable the following season or not. No rule says they can't build the same thing again but they have the opportunity to improve.
Again, I need validation, but it reads that each team may bring one car for each driver to a race along with one spare tub for both. This is where I get confused about how many bare tubs are built. But it sounds like a season is 4 cars and 2 tubs total allowance.
Many approved spare parts may be brought to a race, enough to build a car sans the tub. And in some cases as in noses, then some. So if you rebuild the tub that was qualified, you keep your spot. If not, hence the penalty for putting all available parts on the spare tub.
Teams are not allowed to bring a spare car since somewhere back around a dozen years ago (I could go back and re-read for complete accuracy but I didn't). So it does seem the 2nd car for each team sits back at the factory being refreshed while its sibling is racing.
Overall, not too much unlike NHRA top classes. NASCAR is the one that brings a 2nd car pretty much ready to roll out for each driver. Indy Car I did not look up.
Waiting for corrections, if any, and then we all understand.