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I doubt very much that the entirety of Merc’s defense revolves solely around a single email.

If you recall early on, the FIA implied early on that permission was actually given provided certain criteria were […]

Merc previously said that thst their 2011 car was not available and then sought permission to use the 2013 car.

I probably should be banned from junk food, i had pie and chips for dinner tonight ;)

I admit the Helmet thing is peculiar. I know its a stretch but could it be a legal issue with sponsors, they probably didn’t […]

A secret is when you purposefully don’t let someone know something with the intent of hiding the information. Not telling someone is not necessarily a secret.

If you called your mother and said you would by […]

Except if they were given permission to supply cars to Pirelli so they could test their tyres. The FIA have said that they think the grounds for permission were not met in which case they are going to the Tribunal […]

Wow trial by blog post.
With no facts Hembry and Brawn are guilty as charged.

Except you have no proof, nor do any of the other teams that any development work was done on the Mercedes during the test that was run by Pirelli. Even the FIA will be unlikely to quantify what advantage if any […]

Err they are an engine manufacturer, surely its just possible they have some spare engines from last year or this years preseason testing?

Do yuo really think they need 1000km to test some new brakes.

Surely […]

It seems the 2011 car may not have been legal. Using the 2011 car was an assumption, but not specified in the regulations

So your saying the F150 run by the B team with the teams test driver, could not log data and gain information from running around for 1000km any less than Merc in its 2013 car? Your also implying that Ferrari are […]

Wouldn’t it be ironic if these teams all suffer a delamination and subsequent damage to their cars and associated grid penalties.

I suspect there is yet another team that has done a test too. Some of the other teams have been pretty quiet. Pirelli implied more tests have been done

Your making a huge assumption that the car was altered during the test. The point of a baseline test is that the car is taken out of the equation for Pirelli to make comparisons between each of its experimental […]

Err have you seen the regulations for next year. No team next year will be driving an evolution of this years car.

The problem is, which is clearly explained in Pirellis statement. No one will get any benefit. Your saying Pirelli now has to make a huge number of experimental tyres still under development so all the teams can […]

So they proved the’re car is reliable then

I can see how this all played out. Pirelli asked Merc if they would do the test, Merc agreed, but told Pirrelli its 2011 car was not available, so Merc went to the FIA to seek approval to use the 2013 car. In some […]

So they tested 2014 tyres with a 2013 car. Would there have been such an uproar if they used a 2012 car to test 2013 tyres?
Given that they wouldn’t have been able to make any changes to the car during the whole […]

I don’t think they are going to be that slow. The did the longest stints in practice and degradation and lap times were pretty good. Lewis did a 24 lap stint, and both drives clocked up a massive 99 laps each […]

So being 0.091seconds off pole position is a failure?