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F1 is not the only motorsport in the world, so go ahead and post your shitposts about WEC or MotoGP or IndyCar or ralley or Polish Speedway or whatever. Even Formula E, I guess. It needs some love, too.
By the way, F2 > F1.
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No damage, other than the hole in the floor, of course.
Lando was lapping faster than Max before he hit the bollard anyway.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to dispute that. I just meant to say his car wasn't entirely damage-free.
Please watch and point out where the bollard could even have touched the floor when it was in fact flung up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpCycDf-7Y
Again, I'm terribly sorry for posting that link. I didn't mean to offend anyone, nor did I realize the burden of proof was on me.
I suppose Max could've been lying, or the team lied to him, or the Race Just made the entire thing up.
If I had to guess I'd say it wasn't the impact with the bollard itself that caused the damage, but you seem to be well versed in these things so I'll trust your judgement.
I'm not offended. Why would I be? I'm just pointing out that the bollard wasn't lodged between the car floor and the track surface at all. Wing damage: Maybe (but the team saw nothing on telemetry and Max later said to the press that the car didn't feel any different and apparently the lap times were not much different). Floor damage from the bollard: No way.
There has been some confusion about the floor damage, apparently even max was confused by Red Bull saying that there was floor damage as he didn't felt much difference in the car.
Source: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red-bull-insists-verstappen-had-floor-damage-despite-post-f1-race-confusion/10607603/
Oh, so did you personally inspect the bollard to check whether it didn't break into several pieces from the impact to rule out any possibility that a fragment did in fact went under the car even though the lergest piece of the bollard didn't?
It's pretty clear at 0:31, well as clear as that blurry mess can be. The back left of the car slams on the bollard fixture (or whatever that ground connector is called). At a higher resolution if you look at the body in front of the back left wheel you can literally see the fixture rip off a part of the body. Hard to say if it count as a hole in the floor, but it's pretty clear the car/floor was damaged.