07-23-2010, 09:08 AM
More on the silverstone Redbull incident
Quote:It was a situation we didn't expect to find ourselves in. Basically, to revisit again the issue – the situation was quite clear.
After P3 both wings were deemed to have damage to them. Sebastian's wing was definitely un-runable and there was a suspected issue on Mark's wing after P3. So both cars were prepared with the previous front wing for qualifying.
Half an hour before the qualifying session it turned out that the wing that had run on Mark's car, the defect was not a material defect and the component was absolutely safe for purpose and Adrian was happy that we should run it. Therefore with only one component we had to decide pretty quickly as to which side of the garage it should go.
Both Adrian and I felt that the criteria of championship position was based on what they had done on track, and it seemed to be the fairest. That will be criteria that, should we find ourselves in the same position at any of the remaining races, we will use in the same circumstances.