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That's up to Audi Sport and if the ACO accept that as a plausible mitigating circumstance. Problem is that only a couple such appeals between F1 and the WEC have been accepted as compelling enough for the authorities to withdraw a penalty based on it. The fact also seems that Audi Sport are admitting at least some fault in the article that was referred to, so that might not help them, either.
Either that, or since this seems to be a strange case, Audi Sport think that it's worth explaining it to the ACO/FIA at a WMSC hearing, since this is the first time I've heard of such a deal where a car behaved differently at prolonged low speeds vs normal race conditions.
Also kinda goes back to my point, should every rule be black and white, or can circumstances be taken into consideration? IMO, that's an inconsistency and either all rules are open to interpretation or they're not. No sanctioning body, be it the FIA, ACO, Indy Car, IMSA, NASCAR, who be it, can't flip flop back and forth on which rules have grey area and which one's don't. The only grey area with the skid rule is that the ACO themselves admitted that they won't penalize a team who give a reasonable explanation to the excessive skid wear and have something to back up their claims.
Even though that rule seems black and white, the ACO themselves inserted a bit of grey area into it with those provisions. This, of course, is because these are 6 hour or 24 hour races, not 2 hour F1 races.
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