Lewis Hamilton has claimed that “far more” F1 cars would have been found to be illegal if the entire field had been checked following the United States Grand Prix.
cars would have been found to be illegal if the entire field had been checked following the United States Grand Prix. were disqualified from second and sixth place at last weekend’s race in Austin after the floor planks underneath their cars were found to have excessive wear.’ McLaren were also looked at as part of the FIA’s usual random post-race checks, but their cars were found to be in conformity.
“They only tested a few cars and 50 percent of them got disqualified,” Hamilton told Sky. “There were far more drivers’ cars that were illegal.“The skid is not a performance element. Of course, if you have a flat surface everyone is going to be pushing their car to be as low as possible. “So hopefully they’ll learn a little bit for the future, rather than checking everybody and over 50 percent of the cars failing, which, I would put all my money on it that they would have.
“If you look at our onboard footage of Charles and I, we have the worst ride of everyone, the Ferraris and us. Our heads are bumping around quite a lot. But others are also doing those things.
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