Delfy wrote:This is F1. Teams will always look to exploit any loophole available. All teams do this and have done since F1 began. I can understand the frustration when your team isn’t the recipient of rule tweeks / changes but it’s swings and roundabouts. I’ve read a fair bit on this forum , though I haven’t posted much , and it seems a Ferrari weighted place. I have huge admiration for Ferrari, their achievements and charisma over the years, but they aren’t above playing any card that will give them advantage. Fair do’s I say! Talking of tyres, during the Schumacher years they pretty much had an exclusive tyre designer. Last year they were oil burning. This is the nature of F1. Its the edge of technology and teams will always look to get an advantage. But you can’t accept that advantage then cry foul if another team does the same.
Making a mid season change on tire formulas to benefit one team is not a loophole imo. This is a major change.
Why can't Merc simply adapt their car to the approved rubber as the other teams had? I don't think it is the place of the FIA to be playing favorites like this mid-season. Merc doesn't have a right to a 1 second gap as far as I know but that is what it looks like with these custom tires.
Also Merc had perfected using oil as fuel over the past three seasons and were burning oil at a much higher rate than the others last season. Closing the oil loophole over the off season has closed the gap between the top three teams which I think is a good thing.
And having those ridiculous engine freeze rules removed allowing the other teams compete has been a plus as well. All we can ask for is the teams to have the opportunity to fairly compete which is something that the engine rules had negated over turbo era until now.
