From pole to a third consecutive DNF - floor damage is revealed as the cause for Oyu_Toshiki0804's latest SFormula disaster at Sugo: tgm_grandprix
During the race, Oyu complained on the radio that the rear end of his TGM machine felt"weird", suggesting a car issue had been to blame for his earlier excursion into the gravel.
"In the eight-minute warm-up, the floor wasn’t scraping [the track] at all, so after hearing from the driver that he wanted more downforce and traction, the engineers decided to lower the ride height," explained Ikeda.Especially in the last corner, there were puffs of smoke [from bottoming out], and little by little… eventually a hole opened up in the floor. So we lost downforce, and then the laptimes dropped off.
"We had the feeling we could compete in warm-up, but to feel even more secure we put on even more downforce and we ruined the floor."Oyu hasn't finished a race in the points since the opening round of the season at Fuji, although bonus points for his qualifying performances means he heads into the second half of the season joint-eighth in the drivers' standings.
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