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It's clear you didn't read my comment either.
Enforcing this rule fully, the way you imagine is practically impossible. But the rule is necessary to stop excessive porpoising.
Calm down.
No, it is not "practically impossible" to do a technical inspection. You seem to think the Formula 1 is the equivalent of your local test and tune night with one dude that looks at something, guesses it isn't a fire hazard, and gives it a pass.
If you have a part that you specifically put on a car to serve as a wear indicator and you can't even bother to check it for wear, why is that part on the car? Do you really think it's that hard to check the thickness of a part? They're made of a composite material. Absolutely nothing needs to be done beyond specifying the cap material to have 1mm of thickness and if that top cap is breached you're done. FFS, this is something your local skate kids are experts at. Just ask them if you need help identifying when a wooden laminate's been worn down.
The plank has existed for nearly three decades and has nothing to do with "porpoising." It's there to enforce minimum ride height rules that have existed way before ground effects were reintroduced.
If I wasn't calm you'd fucking know it.
Because checking planks exactly to 1mm on a multimillon car is comparable to checking a fucking skateboard, sure.
It's very easy to say "WHY THE HELL DID THEY NOT CHECK ALL THE CARS!!!!1!1" in retrospect, but you understand the fact that cars that were not about to be checked were long taken apart before this check even happened. Heck, who knows, maybe they have already been packed in trucks and on the way to Mexico.
The fact that 50% of the cars didn't pass is fucking unprecedented. Is FIA supposed to predict the future or something? Or are they gonna learn from their mistake and perhaps change their prosedure, something that they pretty consistently done in the past.
Now it is true that the teams had only 90 minutes to prepare and having parc ferme since friday is dumb as hell, but it's up to the teams to not break the technical rules. Redbull and McLaren didn't. Ferrari and Mercedes did. Simple as that.