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George Russell‘s gutsy and historic one-stop drive to the win in Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix was for naught after his car was deemed to be underweight after the race.
While Lewis Hamilton was being declared the winner of the race after the fact, the prevailing theory circulating in the F1 community was that Russell’s tires, those he pushed to an extraordinary distance to finish the race on one pit stop, had degraded such that they were stripped of enough rubber to put the car under the minimum weight.
Assuming this theory is accurate, Alex Gintz, Tom Blackburn and Wyatt Watson convene on The Pit Straight to sort out what sort of universe could allow this to happen, how this ironic disqualification impacts the legitimacy of F1’s regulations and even hash out an alternative penalty for the Mercedes team and their underweight car.
The Pit Straight is Frontstretch‘s open-wheel racing podcast, available during the racing season weekly on Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and right here on the web.
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