...I hope everyone checks their cars before submitting... so scrutineering shouldn’t be much of a surprise?
But I will say more about the rear wing supports.
The rules say that there must be two supports, one on each side of the car, and each 10mm thick.
Last year the first time we saw it someone came up with the clever idea of locating those two supports very close together on the centreline, making what appeared to be a single support just over 20mm thick; originally I was going to apply a penalty, since there didn’t appear to be TWO supports... but Andre pointed out that there were two, they were just VERY close together (<1mm gap). Very clever.
Now some people “copied” that and placed the two supports so that they were touching, but still a total of 20mm thick, 10mm on each side of the car. Again, I wanted to apply a penalty, but Andre and I agreed that as long as there was a >10mm thick support on each side of the car it would still be legal.
For the latest round a further number of cars “copied” the single support... but they neither had the gap, nor the mandated 10mm thickness on each side of the car... so a penalty has been awarded to 3 cars.
It is an interesting scenario, where the original, very clever, solution was blindly copied without really thinking of the rules.
Other infractions are:
Bodywork outside of legality volumes.
Floating parts
Internal parts not enclosed by user bodywork.