BrawnGP Melbourne exhausts illegal?

[Ranger]

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...uestioned.html

A small scandal is brewing about the legality of the winning Brawn GP cars at the Australian Grand Prix. It is claimed that the cars ran throughout the weekend with its exhaust pipes protruding from the bodywork by 10cm, which could be outside the regulations. The Brawn bodywork was changed for the Malaysian Grand Prix suggesting that the question of legality may have been raised during the weekend.

Interesting, that site details pictures and the specific regulations which they could have been in breach of.

[Sonic]

Please can we gather up every copy of this magazine and burn them! F1 has had quite enough scandal.

[Tazio]

Just another masterful piece of strategy by brawn.
While everybody was looking at Ferrari in this arena
He got it passed OZ scrutineering, and changed it for
race two.
Too late now I say

[Mark]

Too late now I say

Yes!! It passed scrutineering and no teams objected at the time, so, too late I say!

[Garry Walker]

This started from spanish press, its as credible as used toiletpaper

[Ranger]

Just another masterful piece of strategy by brawn.
While everybody was looking at Ferrari in this arena
He got it passed OZ scrutineering, and changed it for
race two.
Too late now I say

Breaking a rule that has no grey zone (unlike diffuser issue) is not strategic, it is plain illegal.

If they are found to have broken that rule then they should be penalised.

[Mark]

Breaking a rule that has no grey zone (unlike diffuser issue) is not strategic, it is plain illegal.

If they are found to have broken that rule then they should be penalised.

If the cars were illegal they should have been declared illegal at the time. It's too late to change now.

[cosmicpanda]

how on earth would the scrutineers miss something that obvious?

[Valve Bounce]

Has this been reported in The Bild?

[Ranger]

If the cars were illegal they should have been declared illegal at the time. It's too late to change now.

Not at all.

The 1976 British Grand Prix set the precedent when Hunt was DQ'd several months after the race.

IF... and thats a big if... it can be proven without doubt that a car was racing illegally even after scrutineering, then it can and should be penalised.

It's only fair.