if this is about Ferrari getting the 10 grid place penalty idk why people think Merc that anything to do it with,well i guess i do know, it was Crofty who said one team had rejected the chance for the stewards to explore this route, with strong hints made that Mercedes, so Ted went to Merc to ask and they said they didnt block Sainz and that it was to the discretion of the stewards, the stewards gave him the penalty stating that they would have not applied it if they could but the rules are the rules
https://www.planetf1.com/news/mercedes- ... ieve-block
this is what Zak Brown said about it and people immediately jumped to it being Merc
"'Yes, that is unfortunate. We know with Formula 1, there is a lot of self-interest from time to time. But I think you do need something like that. But yeah, it is a little bit unfortunate and a little bit unfair. I don't know who it was, but probably someone at odds with them," Brown concluded."