Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have been disqualified post-race following excessive wear to the rear skid of the floor plank during the US Grand Prix. Ride heights slightly too low were selected, breaching the limit for plank wear during the race by Mercedes and Ferrari. Controversially, neither sister car of Russell or Sainz were selected to be tested, and thus remain classified.
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Mercedes representatives on their way to the stewards’ office. It’s now 1802 local time so they are in the meeting. #USGP https://t.co/Jj0hA156gh pic.twitter.com/PE20GMa9zf
— deni (@fiagirly) October 22, 2023
A physical floor and a plank wear inspection was carried out on the cars of Verstappen, Hamilton, Norris and Leclerc.
Which means that 13 other finishers' planks weren't checked. #F1 #USGP
— Phillip Horton (@PHortonF1) October 23, 2023
#USGP 🇺🇸: Andrew Shovlin on the DSQ: “We are of course naturally very disappointed to lose our podium finish. Unfortunately, it is one of the pitfalls of the sprint format where we have a solitary hour of running before parc fermé.”
Without running at a race fuel load in FP1,…
— deni (@fiagirly) October 23, 2023
🚨 BREAKING: Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have been DSQ'ed from the US Grand Prix
The plank-wear was not in compliance with the regulations ❌
NEW TOP 10:
1) Max
2) Norris
3) Sainz
4) Checo
5) Russell
6) Gasly
7) Stroll
8) Tsunoda
9) Albon
10) Sargaent #F1 #USGP— RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) October 23, 2023
Checo has subsequently increased his gap to Hamilton to 39 points for P2 in the Championship https://t.co/xUh0Ju56pD pic.twitter.com/htOVvAVoEx
— RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) October 23, 2023
Kimi 🤝 @Formula2
Exciting news. 👏 Our Junior Driver, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, will be racing in F2 next season with @PREMA_Team.
Take a look. 👇
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) October 23, 2023
Breaking Point: https://www.breakingpoint.gg
Timestamps:
0:00 Alright guys
0:30 Ride Heights
2:00 Stewards Hearing
3:30 Disqualification
7:00 Controversy
9:00 Merc Apology
10:30 Perez Blessed
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f1, Hamilton DISQUALIFICATION explained by Mercedes! 😡
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