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They are not happy at all. Pretty curious to see if this sours the relationship with MSR for the worst.


This is really a big deal. It seems like MSR and HPD knew, however MSR tried to sweep it under the rug by suspending and or firing the engineer. I'm telling you, it takes a lot of fortitude to report your own team.

This could hurt the case for Honda to green light this car for WEC, which is what HPD is PRESSING like hell for. If Honda decides to say no, then we could really point to this situation as to why it did not happen. This is why HPD self-reported to be respectful about the situation. I hope this does not hurt the possibility of this happening.
 

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I am all for following the rule book

- but -

at the end of the day, its just tire pressure for the love of pete. By reading
these news releases you would think it was roll bars filled with fuel.
I did not know scrutinizing tire pressures was that big of a thing since
I always thought that was part of the set up that teams have leeway to make.
 

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I am all for following the rule book

- but -

at the end of the day, its just tire pressure for the love of pete. By reading
these news releases you would think it was roll bars filled with fuel.
I did not know scrutinizing tire pressures was that big of a thing since
I always thought that was part of the set up that teams have leeway to make.
Series and tire partners don’t want teams tinkering with pressures below a certain psi for safety reasons, but teams will usually try to run as low as they can for increased grip. This issue is usually at the heart of every tire kerfuffle in NASCAR where the teams accuse Goodyear of poor tire construction leading to failures, followed by Goodyear blaming the teams for running low pressures. The difference is Goodyear and NASCAR have recommended instead of mandated minimums and no TPMS.
 

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Apparently, it was just one engineer who was cheating, but the team got the advantage out of it, so the whole team has to pay for it. How much of an advantage this gave them we don't really know, but it's officially cheating, so something had to be done.

You can't have the teams cheating on something that can have a bad effect on safety. You also can't DQ a team a month after the fact, so the sanctions are probably fair. It's just sad the biggest race in the series got a black eye from this.

Hopefully this is the end of this and we can have a fair race at Sebring.
 

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Apparently, it was just one engineer who was cheating, but the team got the advantage out of it, so the whole team has to pay for it. How much of an advantage this gave them we don't really know, but it's officially cheating, so something had to be done.

You can't have the teams cheating on something that can have a bad effect on safety. You also can't DQ a team a month after the fact, so the sanctions are probably fair. It's just sad the biggest race in the series got a black eye from this.

Hopefully this is the end of this and we can have a fair race at Sebring.
I’m not sure how much I buy that only one guy was aware of what the tire pressures were but anything is possible. Just seems to me like between the tire techs and the engineers there’s probably more than person aware of what’s going on. I think if it were caught immediately in post-race tech it’d be a DSQ, but agree that since results have long been official and since HPD reported it there was some reprieve.

Hopefully everyone is well-behaved from here on out.
 

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The Mustang GT3 will finally hit the track for the first time with a three-day test starting Monday at Sebring, alongside the GR010 and Z06 GT3. Hopefully Lanky Turtle will be able to catch some Coyote V8 goodness.

 
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