I'm not sure either, but if merc themselves are saying that not having a cooldown lap or overly worn tyres was the issue, that doesn't explain that whole extra 1.5kg of weight on Lewis car.......and if there was a cooldown lap and they got that extra couple hundred grams of pickup per tyre on the car, it would.mean GEorge could have went through quali and the race with a lighter car than his team mate did and nobody would have been the wiser.214270 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024, 19:48It seems you’re saying that RUS has been underweight all season & it’s only now, here at Spa that the stewards figured out the ruse & stopped it? I’m not sure bro, truth be told.GrizzleBoy wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024, 19:25If I'm Lewis, I'm not going to give a damn about how it feels to get the win here.
If I'm Lewis, the biggest thing I want to know is why I'm racing on saturday and sunday with a car approaching 2kg heavier than.that of my team mate, given that every kg removed lowers laptime by a tenth or so which amounts to seconds in total at the end of the race.
How many times could this have happened at tracks where there was a cool down lap to pick up rubber and nobody would have noticed?
And considering the gap was 0.5 at the chequered flag and that he could have had a couple.more laps to attempt to.pass.
And that's before we even talk about Lewis saying they switched their strategies without telling him.
Or the seeming lack of any chatter about whether George was on the one stop and what he needed pushing wise to maintain his lead.
And then there's Lewis concluding early on that his car will not be faster than George's on Saturdays this year.
It all has a bit of a poo poo smell to it.
What I will say is, the cheat (if real) has now been exposed. I’d therefore expect HAM to crush him moving forward.
So that pickup argument actually makes the whole thing even more damning.