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There have been a number of incidents in 2019 requiring steward intervention, many of which result in a difference of opinion as to whether a penalty was or was not justified. In this article we look at the actual rules and what punitive measures are available to the race director.
jjn9128 wrote: ↑05 Sep 2019, 12:22Haas running/testing a single plane rear wing. I've not seen that for decades!
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IMO saddest part is that you are right. Advantage that Mercedes has, mostly from thin gauge tires is just incredible. Again IMO, pirelli really ruined this season.
I think it might have a short lower/front element that ends more or less just after the lowest point we see in the bend there, and then a shallow flap about 15-20 cm behind that.
This tire issue being raised over and over is getting "tiresome"
Please remember the teams all ran the tires through rigorous tests during the winter and nobody raised any issues or complained about Pirelli's decision to go for the thinner gauge. Vettel himself said the thinner gauge tires are better. Please remember the teams all ran the tires through rigorous tests during the winter and nobody raised any issues or complained about Pirelli's decision to go for the thinner gauge. Vettel himself said the thinner gauge tires are better. 
for most Merc fans. However no one is denying the fact that Merc has built a car that is better with these tires. The question is how the relative performances of the top teams would have been different if the 2018 tires would still have been used. Fact is that in 2018 Merc has had more tire related problems relative to the other top teams and in comparison to 2019. So I don't think its fair to dismiss the notion that these tires have helped Merc to be so dominant. Ofcourse you are right over the whole but I do think right now Ferrari and Red Bull can only win at certain types of tracks and if they are 100% faultless on the execution side whereas Mercedes has a much bigger window of operation and even some faults in Quali (Hamilton this year is mostly amazing in races but his quali's have been a bit better in the past) are not preventing them to win. Again this takes nothing away of the fact that Merc excels on the strategy and execution of races.Wynters wrote: ↑05 Sep 2019, 16:21Perhaps if Ferrari did a better job, they wouldn't be so vulnerable to all these global conspiracies (Pirelli/FIA/Stewards/all Mercedes engine customers/all Mercedes programme drivers/the quality of the asphalt/the weather/etc/etc ad nauseam)?
It's not as if all these threads are filled with hundreds of comments about how unbeatable both their drivers are, how consistently excellent their strategies are, how they've nailed every regulation change, how amazing their in-season development is or how stable and consistent their team membership has been. The primary reason Mercedes have kept winning is because their only competitors keep dropping the ball with such consistent frequency that we no longer need atomic clocks to mark time, we can just use Ferrari cock-ups. Hamilton's continual success isn't down to being at Mercedes, it's down to not being at Red Bull or Ferrari (see Rosberg for further details).
That is one way to look at it. The other way to look at it, is that Mercedes have been usually the team with the “narrow” operating window and have simply invested more into solving exactly that weakness and successfully turned it into a strength, whereas Ferrari have pretty much gone in the opposite direction.Midi wrote: ↑05 Sep 2019, 16:31Ofcourse you are right over the whole but I do think right now Ferrari and Red Bull can only win at certain types of tracks and if they are 100% faultless on the execution side whereas Mercedes has a much bigger window of operation and even some faults in Quali (Hamilton this year is mostly amazing in races but his quali's have been a bit better in the past) are not preventing them to win.
