Following the disqualification of Charles LeclerC and Lewis Hamilton’s Chinese Grand Prix, SKY SPORTS F1’s Bernie Collins is looking closely at what has happened.
LeclerC’s car was 1kg depending on the weight limit of 800kg, and Hamilton’s board under the car was about half wear.
This pair was fifth and sixth in the race, respectively, but Ferrari came out on Sunday Grand Prix without points.
Did Ferrari installation change contribute to Hamilton disqualification?
Hamilton won the Sprint on Saturday in a gorgeous way, but Ferrari, like others, still changed his settings to adapt or improve Sunday race.
Bernie’s words: “I know that I will not run 100kg of fuel in the sprint, so I don’t think it’s rare to change the settings after the sprint.
“I know that one of these changes should start with higher fuel, so I can raise the right height.
“Two years ago (when Hamilton’s Mercedes was excluded for the same reason), the difference between this and Austin was unable to respond when reading the board in the sprint because it could not change the setting between the sprint and the main race.
“In sprint, there was more management than the main race because I had more rap that pushed more hard tires, but in the media, I did a lot of management in the sprint, so it would not be surprised if wear and fuel use went up from the main race.”
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Hamilton led from the beginning to the end, claiming his first victory with Ferrari at the Chinese Grand Prix.
Did Hamilton’s two -stop strategy affect the wearing wear?
Hamilton was the only driver to start mid -term tires in the original top 10, step back in the 56th Lab Race, and then step on the hard driver and run a two -stop race.
BC says: “Two stopper will push more on each lap. Lewis’s only response is that he has been struggling with two odors, so he is in the particle step and controls the pace a bit.
“The only thing for Lewis is that he doesn’t know if he’s been damaged by the LeclerC case. The FIA said,” There is no mitigation situation, “and if Ferrari could prove the lack of damage or downforce, he would have been able to do so.
“In the case of a one -stop leclerc, people said that one stop would be possible. They didn’t know how much hard tires were, so they were not estimated to lose mass, but they were able to pick up and changed the front of the leclerc.
“I don’t know where the mass loss came from.”
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Hamilton was frustrated by Ferrari’s performance after he first finished sixth.
Is Ferrari a basic car design problem?
Interestingly, after Australia, there was a whisper that Ferrari had to raise the car for the season opener to avoid too many wearing wear. The team did not mention the claimed problem, but Hamilton was disqualified for an excessive plank wear after a week.
Bernie’s words: “It would be standard for everyone to raise cars in Australia because of a conflict, and it harms down force and shack wear.
“In Australia, Ferrari was not so strong. Some of them depended on the strategy, but the performance of the qualifiers was not so strong that it would have a very sensitive car in the height of the aero performance.
“I was surprised that China’s sprint is not enough signs that you are illegal for the wearing wear.
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“If we have called the ‘peak’ ride height, it means that the best optimal ride height to have a good aerodynamic platform is very small, which is a car problem.
“All of these tracks want to run a variety of ride heights. For example, Austria has a strong curb that I want to add some ride height.
“Maybe the aero platform can be too peak.”
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It was an interesting start of the Chinese GP that Leclerc lost its left wing after clipping Ferrari Team Fellow Hamilton!
What will Ferrari do to see if Suzuka is legal?
Bernie’s words: “Basically, the legitimate car is the work of the race engineer. Each lace engineer of each car says the car is legal.
“In two cases, they will try to understand why both weight and shack wear are illegal. It would be good to know whether Leclerc is legal for the wearing wear.We know that Lewis’s car is legal because Lewis’s car is weighty. I couldn’t check his car.
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“The team will find out how much the car is on the bottom. They go through all the procedures to see what’s overcoming the limit and what margin to change.
“I think someone will be illegal for the wearing wear, and I hope they will not be checked.”
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What does all this mean about Hamilton’s relationship with Ferrari Engineers?
Bernie’s words: “Ferrari was a conflict because he had a wrong strategy in Australia. In China, he had to have done better because he was disqualified, and he had a wrong strategy because Lewis did not grab the second time.
“Lewis was really having a hard time in the car on Sunday, and the car was illegal. The change of setting was not so slow in the race or illegal in the race.
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Listen to the radio message in Hamilton’s first race with Ferrari throughout Australia’s Grand Prix.
“So it’s a conflict. If they are experiencing it and they find something wrong, Lewis can overcome it quite quickly, but it’s one of these little things that adds to the lack of trust.
“When Sebastian Vettel came to us from Aston Martin, I really wanted us to think we were good at our job.
“I wanted him to really go if he called me in a pit because he trusted the team. Now we are not sure of the driver because we have a strategy, radio, now disqualified.”
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