DaveEllis Wrote:
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> Important point from Brundle:
>
> There is an automatic wheel retaining device
> fitted to all F1 wheel spindles which clearly also
> failed in this case and which would normally have
> prevented the wheel parting company fully.
>
> As far as Renault was concerned, the wheel should
> not have come off. The car failed which allowed it
> to come off. If we are penalising car failures,
> then where is Brawns for having put a driver in a
> coma?
Whilst not wanting to sound like i'm trying to justify the penalty, the FIA's statement said:
[...]
"[Renault] knowingly released car no. 7 from the pitstop position without one of the retaining devices for the wheel-nuts being securely in position, this being an indication that the wheel itself may not have been properly secured."
[...]
I'm reading that as it wasn't actually on the wheel when he was released.