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Article 9 of the "preliminary practice regulations" says:
"As soon as the preliminary practice sessions are over, the Section Committee will meet and may forbid entrants to take part in the qualifying practice sessions in June in the event of the quality (presentation of cars, team's work, etc.) being considered as inadequate."
That would seem to leave the Committee with a lot of leeway when it comes to allowing a team to move on to the next step in June....
If Team Sezio is dog slow, doesn't have its drivers in line to race or participate (unless they hire someone who doesn't have to prove him or herself), or otherwise doesn't have its act together in other areas that must meet the Committee's standards, they could very well be replaced...
The speculation on other threads was that they are driving a Norma chassis and the team owner is the North American distributor for Norma....but I don't buy the whole French Bias thing....
Also, teams that find that they just can't cut it from Sunday's sessions can choose not to formally "enter" the June competition.... all teams must notify the committee within 30 minutes following the conclusion of the sessions of their intention to show up in June...
I don't see that happening if a team spent the time and money to show up for PQ, but at least it is theoretically possible....
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