Deflate Gate

Looks like it is now a F1 problem. Still seeing if Hamilton gets a penalty or not.

Happy new year!

At least they used certified calibrated pressure gage's un like the other billion dollar sports sanctioning body that recently had a air pressure problem.

And I bet it I resolved in hours not years.

That's it! 4 race suspension and driver must lose $1.8 million.

ebonyandivory wrote: That's it! 4 race suspension and driver must lose $1.8 million.

What an absolute farce F1 has become. WEC too, for that matter.

Hamilton kept the win.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/34168014

I'm glad. The tinfoil hat part of me started to put together Pirelli (Italian), Ferrari in second (30 second penalty would have put Vettel on top), in Monza.....

Glad to know he didn't receive a penalty. Not a huge Hamilton fan, but am glad he's chasing his mentor's record right now and a ding at Monza would have ruined what is a glorious season for him.

-Rob

Since tires move around in PSI with heat what to stop you from just running hard at the end to bring the tire pressures up. Surely that have that monitored in real time at the pit level.

In reply to wearymicrobe:
The tire pressure was measured on the grid before the start and found to be low. I have no doubt they were well above the minimum pressure the whole race, once the first lap was over. The tires at the end of the race wouldn't be the ones he started on either.

Yeah, a 1/4lb under could mean the umbrella girl cast a shadow on the tire for too long.

They use psi? Shouldn't it be in milliliters or something?

And Maldonado cracked his car in half and there was no reply of it!!

Wally wrote: They use psi? Shouldn't it be in milliliters or something?

Euros.

Woody wrote:

Wally wrote: They use psi? Shouldn't it be in milliliters or something?

Euros.

French Catholic Units.

The minimum pressure was at the request of Pirelli to ensure the tires stayed together under the hard use of Monza. Blame Vettel's whining about blowing a (very old) tire at Spa for that. I'm glad it wasn't allowed to affect the race, as it's pretty much impossible to properly measure unless the stewards have possession of the tires long enough for the temps to stabilize internally.

I read that the stewards did nothing because the Mercedes teams' tire warmers were set to a lower temperature than other teams. That suggests the other teams were running even lower pressures had everyone's tires been measured at ambient temperature.

Both deflategate scenarios also play out the same way. In both cases, it was an insignificant amount of pressure, and both guys won by such a large margin it wouldn't have made an ounce of difference anyway.