Carol Ortiz4 said:One more thing... I was doing some reading just now... and it seems Max is constantly pushing this whole "secret fuel tank" concept...
Fine... but if I were to ask Max directly, how on earth do you hide a 15-liter tank from the officials?!?! 15 liters isn't exactly a tiny volume to try and sneak past someone...
especially in Formula 1, where every single millimeter counts and every gram matters when you're trying to shed weight...
It’s pure stupidity... the FIA should have disqualified them instead of just hitting BAR...
According to Martin Brundle, we're talking about a collector—which every car has—that holds the fuel coming out of the tank. It doesn't get emptied before weighing; only the main tank does. At BAR, that collector was over 8 liters, which is significantly larger than what other teams were using. Once you subtract those 8 kilograms, you realize how much lighter the car actually was. In the following race, BAR had a total advantage of 12 seconds.