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Only if a telephone call that was followed up by Whiting stating some conditions that could make a test fall within the grand scheme of things would be considered to be “giving the nod” @ming-mong.

True enough @mazdachris, no one has seen the contract. My main point made in the post above, was that its far to early to say that this looks bad for Mercedes and Pirelli after hearing what the FIA accuses them […]

Not too sure of that @thebladerunner. Remember this is the FIA “prosecution” bringing their case. After all, if Pirelli are bound by the rules that forbid in season testing, then why on earth did the FIA sign a […]

Its public in the sense that Media are allowed to watch it (from a screen in a seperate room) but not allowed to tweet about it (although it seems Sky is sending text info that is being shown on their website)

eh, sorry Greg, that should have been @greg-morland

Let me add, that I think its very good they did not do anything like that deal, because it wouldn’t do anything good for the sport – why would RBR (and Bernie) get something from a settlement, but not all the […]

Very interesting article from Swiss “Blick” (in German) with some quotes from Niki Lauda:

«Warten wir mal ab! Ich habe das ganze Montreal-Wochenende versucht, den Prozess noch zu verhindern. Red Bull, das mit […]

Another lovely top ten @greg-moreland! Keep them coming

I guess there is a difference between starting up a new team and claiming you will be successful within sort notice and buying into a team that has all the facilities, and a good technical team, but lacks the […]

LOL @omarr-pepper!

It indeed looks like a combination of shambles from both HRT and Lotus. Now the Kodewa (Kolles) team running the cars and the companies that built them are suing each other over money and parts in the run-up to […]

Its exactly that. So for next year, when the first race will be 2. march, it means the last test day has to be 20. Februari and then they cannot test until the next year.

Well, yes, @npf1, at straight line tests a FIA representative is indeed present. But at the test Ferrari conducted for Pirelli no one was, as they were as much uninformed about details of it as they were of the […]

Indeed, the common ECU was one of the principal things that made a TC ban viable in practice, and teams, MES and the FIA would be very much on it if they had the slightest doubt a team would be using something like that.

Yes, @jeff1s, so far the teams have contracts with FOM, but as there is no Concorde Agreement signed they do not have a contract with the FIA over governance.

But by entering the championship, they […]

I guess we can only congratulate you on being able to field that bill then @willaim-brierty!

Have a great time at the Silverstone race

The test was conducted by Pirelli though, but they used Mercedes cars and had Mercedes bring the drives and most likely at least part of the engineers @jonsan. I am not saying that makes it a clear Pirelli test, […]

not sure what you are talking about there q85.

If you mean the gimmick on the exhaust exit during pre-season testing, that was not something Williams ever intended to use. Its purpose was more to both attrackt […]

Personally I feel the most important thing that can come from this is that the FIA Tribunal will (or will not) be established as credible by a transparent procedure leading to a well argued decision and a fair […]

I have seen that during last week on F1 Technical – a discussion forum – where the guys more or less came to the conclusion its interesting to see, but not them doing anything illegal.

Craig Scarborough […]