He believes other cars would have been caught if they had been checked. “What’s crazy is they only test four cars, 50% fail,” said the 38-year-old Mercedes driver. Norris said that if one car from a team was illegal in such a manner, then there was a high chance the other one was, too. The floors of Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari and George Russell’s Mercedes were not checked in Austin. Norris said: “I would love if they had checked more cars. It’s unlikely two [cars in one team] are that different. If one car is illegal then there’s a high chance the other car is.”. “With just one session to set up the car, it is bit more hit and miss. But Hamilton denied that Mercedes were chasing performance by running the car low in Austin.

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