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When Formula 1 draped an "under new management" sign over its doors upon its takeover by Liberty Media, many fans were hoping for an end to the knee-jerk decision making that had perhaps become customary over the previous few years in a bid to peg back teams getting too big for their boots.
Perhaps it falls more into the domain of the FIA to make those calls, but still, most were hopeful of more consistent governance with regards to the rulebook.
So when it became clear over the Spanish Grand Prix weekend that F1 and the FIA were planning to ban qualifying engine modes, necessitating the use of a common engine setting for qualifying and the race from the next grand prix at Spa-Francorchamps, many would be forgiven for thinking "oh cripes, here we go again". Or, as they say in France: plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
