Audi R15 TDI Legality questioned....

[AndyRAC]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74361

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The timing seems strange. It got through scrutineering with no problems, those front wing splitters were analysed to death in the run up to Sebring, and it wasn't as if the Audis destroyed the opposition at Sebring

[harvick#1]

Peugeot wants it to be disqualified so they can try and get a lemans win handed to them.

wut seriously, WTF its happening in F1, now here, teams really need to quit crying over the other care and worry about making there own better

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Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with the F1 diffusers because its a grey area open to interpretation whereas whereas the Audi is much closer to being illegal.

http://www.mulsannescorner.com/newsmarch09.html

Here's a look underneath the R15's front diffuser. What I've cropped and focused on here is the trailing edge of the flap. We can see that it comes to a point.

The rhetorical question, ultimately, is how has this been deemed legal? Let's refresh our memory of Art 3.6.1, this is the full text:

3.6.1 - With the exception of the rear wing defined in article 3.6.3, no bodywork or underbody element having a wing profile (*) is permitted :

(*) "Wing profile" : section generated by two arcs with different curves and/or centres joining a leading edge at the front to a trailing edge at the rear, the purpose being to exert an aerodynamic effect, lift or down force.

Are not considered as a wing profiles, the bodywork elements that:

•have a constant thickness,
• have an absolutely symmetrical profile,
• are vertical.

[F1boat]

OMG, the F1 illness of whining and complain is contagious...

[Jag_Warrior]

OMG, the F1 illness of whining and complain is contagious...

Yep. B!tch and moan long enough and maybe a lawyer can get a win gifted to you.

My suggestion: shut up and race!!!

[KyKiske]

Yep. B!tch and moan long enough and maybe a lawyer can get a win gifted to you.

My suggestion: shut up and race!!!

Or teams could conform to the rules? After all the point of regulations is to promote fair racing. If the R15 isn't legal then how can expect a fair race at Le Mans?

[F1boat]

IMO when the stewards allow it to race, it is OK. BTW, cool nickname, KyKiske

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IMO when the stewards allow it to race, it is OK. BTW, cool nickname, KyKiske

Stewards aren't always right. Take the example of Honda in 2005 who ran ballast illegally and yet it was OK by the stewards.

I don't the know the correct protocols but the ACO needs to take a firm look at it with Le Mans around the corner.

[AndyRAC]

Stewards aren't always right. Take the example of Honda in 2005 who ran ballast illegally and yet it was OK by the stewards.

I don't the know the correct protocols but the ACO needs to take a firm look at it with Le Mans around the corner.

Which kind of defeats the object of Stewards - they're not meant to get things wrong - yet, time after time, they do.