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[Jason]

4 minutes ago, smokeless6 said:

 How there are any grey areas like this in F1 rules is a mystery. Get it together.

 

I've said this in the past about the F1 rules, there are so many grey areas like this that come up all the time leading to confusion, frustration or just straight up anger. The FIA's M.O. is to basically leave things as they are until a problem arises then fix, not worrying about the carnage it causes in the meantime. I understand there's some circumstances where it's hard to predict but there's a lot of areas in the rules where it should be easy to spot potential messes, and those need cleaning up. I mean, the whole serving a penalty thing is daft, there are grey areas on what you're allowed to do while serving the penalty and the time penalty it's self is timed by the team, it's mad. The FIA need to control the timing and clarify the rules or they need to apply every time penalty post race - but only apply penalties pre-podium, of course.

 

And as for Merc, go watch Toto's interview post-race. It's basically verified the rumours that there was a bit if a split in the Merc term about what to do concept wise, there was clearly some part of it fighting for the current concept and another part wanting to go in another direction. This is likely the reason why Lewis started piping up about it, to put pressure on those people.

 

But as per Toto the Merc team are now all in on the new concept, the current concept is dead. TBD how long it'll take before we see it but yea, it sounds like they're going for a RB style car, to the point Toto even got ahead of the memes and jokes by saying he doesn't care if they put a RB sticker on it as long as it's got the performance.