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“The car can lose quite a lot of weight during the race. You get tyre wear, plank wear, brake wear, oil consumption. The driver themselves can lose a lot, and in this particular race George lost quite a bit of weight.
“The cars started the race the same weight. Lewis and George were both weighed after qualifying. The cars were within 500 grams. George’s car was the only one that had the problem, and it is because things like the tyre wear was much higher.
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“It looks like we lost more material on the plank. We will collect all that data though, look at how we can refine our processes because clearly, we do not want that to happen in the future.”
Regarding the impact that Russell being underweight would have had, Shovlin added: “In terms of pace at the start of the race it is nil because George’s car and Lewis’ car start the race at the same weight.
“Obviously, as George’s car was losing weight faster than Lewis’ throughout the race, there is an associated gain with that. But you are into the hundredths of a second per lap. It will be very small because when you are talking about amounts like one or two kilos, they do not amount to a lot of lap time. But as I said, at the start of the race the cars were the same weight.”
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