Why did Lewis and Charles both get disqualified in the U.S grand prix?

[floral zinc]

I still don't understand why they both got disqualified post race

[weary saffron]

because they wore the floor too much

[prisma swift]

Under the F1 cars there is a wooden plate for safety where there is a wear limit, lewis and leclerc exceeded that limit

[rotund scarab]

basically if they exceed the limit their car was too close to the floor

which breaks the rules

[floral zinc]

Ohhh thank u

[rough charm]

But is that even reliably measurable? I mean afaik it were tenths if a mm for leclerc

cant this just happen by accident?

[fervent obsidian]

Not really. It should only happen if the car is too low to the ground

[drowsy plinth]

Well It probably wasn’t on purpose by Ferrari and Mercedes but the teams try to run the‘re cars as low as possible and as you said it was only really really less so it was most likely byaccident. In Austin it was extremely difficult for all the teams as the track is very bumpy and there was only one Practice and no time to analyse the data. On top of that only four cars were investigated so it’s likely that a lot more where running to low.

[rough charm]

Yeah, another reason why sprint races have to be thought trough again

I mean its cool that fans get more racing action, but at least keep the 3 practices