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@vettel1 – When Red Bull used a version of a blown diffuser last year, you defended the decision not to take action against them as there was nothing in the rules prohibiting their solution.

Now that Mercedes […]

How is it relevant? Red Bull have led the charge in criticising Mercedes. If they are found to be cheating themselves, that’s a pretty serious problem.

You might think it’s clutching at straws, but traction […]

“between the start of a ten day period which precedes the start of the first event of the championship and 31 December of the same year”.

So you can’t test from the 10 days before the first race and also not […]

That doesn’t mean you don’t also have outdated views.

My gut is telling me Mercedes will get away without punishment – the email from Charlie (who after all is a senior FIA official) will be their get-out-of-jail card. Charlie, though… I don’t think he’ll be as […]

I think that Mercedes will be found guilty and will have to pay a considerable fine and lose some points in the constructors’ championship.

It is pretty clear that FIA doesn’t agree with Mercedes’ view on the […]

@jeff1s Smart competitors don’t quit in reaction to being punished for breaking the rules – even car manufacturers. Consider the example of Toyota in the WRC a few years ago. Or even Renault in F1 post-Crashgate: […]

What about all the times the didn’t drop back before the test then? They have done well recently largely because they have been at tracks where they were predicted to do well.

I think that risks reading too much into the result of two races at tracks where tyre degradation is far less of a factor than it is at Bahrain or Catalunya. And oversimplifying the nature of Mercedes’ tyre […]

Not after their investment in the new engines, surely.

Whilst Red Bull are busy criticising Mercedes for having broken the rules, Autosprint have suggested that they might be using electonic aids to control their wheelspin – in other words, traction control. This […]

Personally I feel Mercedes deserve a multiple race ban, and a reprimand. And Ross Brawn to get the sack.

I disagree completely. What Mercedes did might have bene unethical, but it makes no sense unless they had […]

I am pretty sure none have a positive balance (if you count out state subventions) and the best of them run at about break-even level.

So you would change artificially making stops from the tyres going off for having a stop to refuel? I really fail to see the added value of that @nemo87.
Drivers will still be told to hold position, to slow or to […]