McLaren has been summoned to the Method 1 stewards as a result of each of its automobiles are in an alleged breach of plank put on guidelines after the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Each McLaren automobiles of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have failed to satisfy the thickness requirement of the rear skid block, which often leads to disqualification.
It’s in relation to Article 3.5.9 e) of the 2025 F1 technical laws, which states “the thickness of the plank meeting measured regular to the decrease floor should be 10mm ± 0.2mm and should be uniform when new”.
“A minimal thickness of 9mm shall be accepted because of put on and conformity to this provision shall be checked on the peripheries of the designated holes,” the article provides.
This comes after Norris completed runner-up to Max Verstappen in Vegas, with Piastri crossing the road in fourth behind third-placed George Russell.
Ought to a disqualification occur, it will be the fifth and sixth of this 12 months in complete – three of which got here at spherical two in Shanghai because the automobiles of Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly have been each 1kg underweight.
Leclerc’s Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton was additionally thrown out of the China outcomes because of extreme put on on his rear skid block.
Two races later Nico Hulkenberg was disqualified in Bahrain as a result of his Sauber’s rear skid block failed to satisfy the minimal thickness requirement, however none of them had completed on the rostrum like Norris did in Vegas.
So the final time that occurred earlier than Vegas was the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix, when George Russell misplaced his victory as a result of his Mercedes was 1.5kg underweight in post-race scrutineering.
That handed victory to then-team-mate Hamilton, who additionally misplaced a podium via disqualification the 12 months earlier than at the US Grand Prix. It got here after his Mercedes had extreme put on on his rear skid block.
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