Durango thrown out after rear wing discovery.
The Durango squad will take no further part in the GP2 weekend at Silverstone after they were excluded for being in breach of technical regulations prior to Lucas di Grassi's wing spectacularly collapsing.
The Brazilian had been on for his best result of the year in fifth place when the rear wing of his Dallara collapsed coming into Copse, forcing him to retire.
On later investigation it was considered that the rear wing had been previously repaired and not entirely replaced as is stipulated in Article 6.1 of the 2006 GP2 Series technical regulations.
The Durango squad will take no further part in the GP2 weekend at Silverstone after they were excluded for being in breach of technical regulations prior to Lucas di Grassi's wing spectacularly collapsing.
The Brazilian had been on for his best result of the year in fifth place when the rear wing of his Dallara collapsed coming into Copse, forcing him to retire.
On later investigation it was considered that the rear wing had been previously repaired and not entirely replaced as is stipulated in Article 6.1 of the 2006 GP2 Series technical regulations.
The team manager has since accepted that the rear wing had been repaired by someone other than the original supplier, the rear-wing had failed at the point of repair and that the same had occurred on the di Grassi's team mate, Sergio Hernandez's car.
"The Stewards find that this is a clear breach of 2006 GP2 Series Technical Regulations and is regarded by them as being a serious issue which affects the safety not only of the driver in each car but potentially of other competitors."
With the officials seeing this as a major breach of the rules, both di Grassi and Hernandez will take no further part in the weekend.
"The Stewards consider that by virtue of the repairs carried out, the construction of each vehicle must be regarded as unsafe such that the Stewards, by virtue of International Sporting Code Article 127, order that cars 22 and 23 be excluded from the event."
Initially, the Durango press release had suggested that di Grassi had been hit by another car, but the baffled Brazilian denied that this had been the case when asked at the end of the race.
"The rear wing just flew off, and I don't know why. I didn't have any kind of contact, front or rear. Just before the corner the car felt loose, then the rear slid away from me and I spun."
It is not the first time this year that Durango has been punished by the GP2 officials after di Grassi was sent to the back of the Imola grid when it was found his car was running some non-standard parts.
