Lewis Hamilton claimed on Thursday that more cars than his Mercedes and Charles Leclerc's Ferrari were illegal at the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin and called for a fairer system of post-race checks.
The seven times world champion was stripped of second place, and Leclerc from sixth, for excessive wear to the car's mandatory under-floor 'plank' in last Sunday's race.
"I have heard from different sources that there were many cars that had not been tested and were also illegal," Hamilton told reporters ahead of this weekend's race in Mexico City. "For me there has to be some kind of better structure in terms of making sure it is fair and even across the board." Given the time constraints of packing up for back-to-back races with tight freight deadlines it is impossible to check every car for the same potential breaches, it added.Red Bull's triple world champion Max Verstappen, whose car passed the plank test, blamed the sprint format used in Austin for the problem because teams had only one practice session to set the ride height of their cars.
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