PapayaFan481 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024, 21:48
FittingMechanics wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024, 21:47
PapayaFan481 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024, 21:42
"The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled."
Now that can be read in 2 different ways. The first is the way many seem to be, which is to read it as Mercedes not draining the according the a declared draining procedure, ie that they were trying to cheat and cover up that the car was underweight. The other is that the team declared in their draining procedure that they had not fully drained the car, ie they informed the FIA that there was still fuel in the car and were not trying to hide anything.
I think it is obviously first interpretation.
Why would Mercedes not drain it fully (according to the procedure).
Why would they not? Fuel still in the car would be easy to spot. It's not like they have a hidden tank unlike in their BAR days.
It is a flexible fuel tank.
I think it makes no sense that Mercedes doesn't drain it fully and then brings a car with 798kg weight to weighing and says, you know what, we didn't drain it fully.
They need to drain it. Makes no sense to not drain and be open about it.
Only thing that makes sense is that the, drained to 798 and sent it to weighing.