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Eish Mclaren. Not the most exciting race. Antonelli had some good defending. Lewis improved greatly. Charles not staying within 5s of Antonelli and losing out on a podium (even after the fact) says it all for Ferrari this year. The rookies have had a great year.

Williams in 5th and Haas in 7th for the constructors currently. Three way into Qatar.
 
Explains why Lando dropped back so quickly behind Max after being told to go catch him. Curious about the radio messages betweent the drivers and the team. I suspect they knew so coasted to minimise the wear.

Seriously big screw up by the team. But Lando still has as sizeable lead with 2 races to go. He won 2 of the last 3 races so has the form to win at least one of the remaining races. I still have Lando to take the title, but having max breathing down your neck this close won't be fun.
 
I watched the race in 30min again last night - with the knowledge of Lando's DSQ in my head, you can clearly see his floor sparked WAAY more than Russell or Max.

What a cracking end of the season we are in for! Max will go full send - he has nothing to lose. Lando can try, but as David Coulthard said, Lando can play the Max games but he doesn't know all the rules - turn 1 yesterday case in point.
 
“We apologise to Lando and Oscar for the loss of points today, at a critical time in their championship campaigns after two strong performances from them all weekend,” said McLaren’s team principal, Andrea Stella. “As a team, we also apologise to our partners and fans, whose support means so much. While this outcome is extremely disappointing, we remain fully focused on the last two races of the season.”
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Goosfrabba said:
Explains why Lando dropped back so quickly behind Max after being told to go catch him. Curious about the radio messages betweent the drivers and the team. I suspect they knew so coasted to minimise the wear.

Seriously big screw up by the team. But Lando still has as sizeable lead with 2 races to go. He won 2 of the last 3 races so has the form to win at least one of the remaining races. I still have Lando to take the title, but having max breathing down your neck this close won't be fun.
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Yes same reason Ferrari often tell their drivers to lift and coast. They knew their car was too low to be competitive and the expanding titanium has been removed.
 
“A frustrating end to today," he said. "We had to do some managing towards the end of the race and now we know it was due to some issues on our car, which have unfortunately resulted in us being disqualified."
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OH so they did manage the plank wear and not possible fuel problem.
 
Please forgive my public tantrum and kneejerk reaction, I think I have calmed down now.
Lando did so well to gain the title lead and the team blew it for him.

Thanks too all the people who correctly pointed out my error and with the rules to back it up. I was just reacting to the Stewards document and reacted without knowing the full facts. If the top 3 were all tested and only McLaren filed then it is a slam-dunk DSQ, fair and Square.

Cheers
Chris
 
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Anyone know the technical details related to ride height? I mean, how much too low were the McLarens? And how much benefit in lap time is there in being that low?
 
Speedster said:
Anyone know the technical details related to ride height? I mean, how much too low were the McLarens? And how much benefit in lap time is there in being that low?
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I believe there was 0.12mm too much plank wear on Lando's car

Decreased ride height = massively increased downforce.
 
Sinbad said:
I believe there was 0.12mm too much plank wear on Lando's car

Decreased ride height = massively increased downforce.
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Say the car would've been safe if it was 0.5mm higher. Does that 0.5mm translate into significant performance improvement?
 
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