Drilling Scandal Rocks F2 punished as six drivers

Six Formula 2 drivers of three teams have been assigned grid penalty for both the Melbourne race in support of Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, as their teams were discovered to drill imagination parts to measure illegal aerial loads in the pre–se-Bags.

This was done in a clear attempt to obtain valuable set-up information for the 2025 F2 campaign, which was using additional data on the car airflow provided to all teams as part of the championship imagination system.

Influence of violations Jak Crawford And Kush mani From Dams, Amouri corridel And Alex dune From Rhodine motorsportPlus Trident Pair Sami MeguTounif And Max esterson,

They will all serve the 10-Place grid penalty in both the Melbourne F2 feature and the sprint race, although for MeguTaunif and Mani, they will face restrictions, even though illegal measurements only occurred on the cars of their respective teammates.

The saga was revealed last month in the F2’s only pre-season test in Barcelona, ​​where the cars of Cordel, Dunne and Esterson were fitted with a sensor drilled in the defuse (the trident car was fitted through two holes and one each was drilled in the same part in rodin-nine machines).

The second time of three days of walking on the Barcelona track was discovered, at the same time when Crawford’s car was found with five holes, which were drilled in its defuser, although the sensor was returned to the dam garage when it was revealed.

Article 10.2A of F2 Sports Rules, as well as Article 1.5.2, Article 8.4.10 and FIA Formula 2, Article 8.4.11 of the F2 Sports Rules were broken.

During a hearing convened by specific F2 Steward in the Australian GP – the next event after the Barcelona test and hence the panel exercised the jurisdiction on the case.

Explaining its findings and decisions, Stewards announced that “the F2 championship is based on a single chassis and single engine”.

“All teams from the chassis manufacturer are provided aerodynamic data,” the bulletin continued. “Technical rules are particularly limited how external airflows can be measured.

“In addition, amendment of a standard part (explosive in this case) is allowed only according to rules, user manual, or a technical bulletin.

It is different from F1, where teams can run dedicated sensors – and even illegal parts – aero loads are all unique during testing and each team’s ownership data through their separate chassis designs.

For all three F2 squads, his team managers admitted that “the standard defuser was modified by drilling a hole to install a tube and sensor to measure external airflows”.

Although in the case of Crawford’s Dam-Run car, the team claimed that although it was designed to use illegally fitted sensors, it did not proceed with such a test as it was collecting data from the same method of such measurement that has been allowed in F2 rules.

Also, grid drops, all three teams were fined € 10,000 and will lose the possibility of one day of the upcoming Bahrain F2 test.

Other eight F2 squads are allowed to fit the defuse sensor in this event and run for a period, as the FIA ​​cannot know how long the Barcelona sensors were fitted.

It will depend on the governing body to decide if it moves forward and if it happens, the dam, rhodin and the trident will not be allowed to use additional sensors.

In matters of MeguTounif and Main, Melbourne Steovers decided that because tridents and dams can potentially use additional data so that their cars can be benefited with different set-up options, other teams have not yet accessed, to ensure some restoration of fairness, they should serve them like their team-friend in this weekend.