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Originally Posted by wnut
Agreed
Plus
The FIA basically said that RP had not violated any of the rules, had obtained everything legally, but had taken it to a new level and violated the intent of the rules.
Then dished out a penalty and agreed the car could carry on unaltered.
Plus unfair prejudice compared to the Ferrari decision.
Good luck to the FIA with this in a court of law!
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Agreed and presumably RP could push the FIA to make the Ferrari case public knowledge and a suitable retrospective penalty.
Making is even more daft is that RP obtained the rear brake ducts entirely legally from Mercedes in 2019 as a listed part, which the FIA changed for 202 - but based on the clear fact that you cannot unlearn something you have in your posssession - they chose to run this part or RP's 'interpretation' of it 2020. This is why the FIA has not made them take it off the car as RP already has the knowledge of the part to appear with an almost identical example they have designed themselves.
I can only see that the FIA have backed themselves into a corner and risk opening a whole can of Ferrari worms at the same time.