Force India side with Renault over illegal Haas floor

Force India believes that Haas is in the wrong in relation to the floor that got Romain Grosjean disqualified from the Italian Grand Prix. A technical directive from the FIA meant that Haas was forced to change the design of the front of the floor of the VF-18.

Force India technical chief Andrew Green weighed in on the debate and reaffirmed his team's position that Haas would have no leg to stand on despite appealing the disqualification from Monza.

“There was a technical directive from the FIA, telling everybody, not just Haas, these are the regulations, and you need to abide by them by Monza. Plenty of time,” he told Crash.net.

“That’s a completely different scenario from thinking that someone’s illegal and then doing a sneaky on them at the end of a race, which tends not to happen.

“We tend to talk to the FIA, the FIA will then go and talk to the team, and they’ll sort it out.

“But when you get a directive from the FIA, you follow it, otherwise you end up being excluded. That’s what’s happened.

“It’s not a gentleman’s agreement. It’s what the regulations are there for.”

Renault lodged a complaint with the FIA after the race in Italy as the race for best of the rest in the constructor standings remains tight between the French and American teams.