{"id":295303,"date":"2023-10-29T08:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=295303"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:29:19","slug":"verstappen-hints-fia-should-have-disqualified-two-more-rivals-alongside-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/racing\/f1\/verstappen-hints-fia-should-have-disqualified-two-more-rivals-alongside-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen hints FIA should have disqualified two more rivals alongside Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Max Verstappen has suggested that George Russell and Carlos Sainz were fortunate not to get disqualified at the United States Grand Prix. The Red Bull star believes that the punishment handed out to Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc should have automatically led to a check on their team-mate’s cars.<\/p>\n

Hamilton and Leclerc were stripped of their respective second and sixth-place finishes at Circuit of the Americas for excessive skid block wear. The bumpy track posed a problem for teams in terms of how low to set their ride height while staying within the rules.<\/p>\n

Only four cars were inspected by the FIA, with two of them – Hamilton’s and Leclerc’s – falling foul of the regulations. While Verstappen concedes that checking over every single car on the grid is not realistic, he has made it clear that any similarity in set-up should naturally lead to the team’s second car also getting a once-over.<\/p>\n

“The problem is that it\u2019s just impossible to check everything,” he said. “No one sets up the car to be illegal. But then of course you have these random checks that get carried out.<\/p>\n

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“That\u2019s just how it goes. You can\u2019t check every car for every single part of the car. Otherwise we need 100 more people to do these kind of things. I think the only thing is when you check one car of the team and it\u2019s illegal, then I think you should check the other one as well.<\/p>\n

“That for me is the only thing. Otherwise you DQ one, and the other one moves up one position, when normally you always run quite similar set-ups.”<\/p>\n