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Old 27 Mar 2020, 11:37 (Ref:3967183)   #5394
Spanner monkey
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Spanner monkey should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by sceptic View Post
As has been repeatedly explained, it isn't a weak point of the design.

Suspension parts are cheap and easy to replace. Making them break on lateral impact is far preferable to having that energy dissipating through the car, potentially damaging the cage or other parts that would be timeconsuming and expensive to repair.
The GPRM parts were alot more resistant to damage from a 'slight tap' at least they could carry on to finish the race. The RML stuff is tubular wishbones as opposed to GPRM machined from ally wishbones.
And the GPRM wheel nuts don't undo themselves either... 🙄
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