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Originally Posted by BagofSkill
You are not normally dq'd if something happens during the event that puts you outside the rules, so long as you can proove beyond a reasonable doubt that you did start legal. This clause is called 'force majeure' and it's in every category from go-karts to F1 (though not in RC). Though it's affected by other rules. EG, if you fix 10kg ballast with an M3 screw, you start the race legal, it falls of at T1 and you finish underweight, that's not ok because there are rule about afixing ballast.
What a random statement! I don't know what your getting at with this.... .....and I've stopped caring.
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Your first quote: I know the clause, but if you look into cases of when it has been used at Touribg Car level, you can see how ambiguous it is in practice.
Your second quote, well your right not to care (Fabs has already shown up how little I know!), but it's not random at all, assuming f1 teams pick up crap on the slowing down lap for the same reasons people in other championships do (rideheight/at a stretch weight), then doing so is clearly against the "intent" of the rules as you put it, as it allows you to run illegally during the race but look legal afterwards. Although I doubt anyone really takes that risk!
But your right, it's got boring, I clearly don't have enough technical/rules knowledge, and your clearly too cranky about it to be reasonable from a process side, so it's not helping anyone!!
On a note that can hopefully be done without argument:
Is the Red Bull rear end packaging mutually exclusive to double deck diffuser?
If it is, given that they are very competitive, would they definitely gain from scrapping the current solution and getting the fancy diffuser?
Why have all the teams gone down the diffuser route and not tried to copy the Red Bull, would it not be as effective/cheaper??
Am genuinely asking those out of curiosity, does anyone know?