Secret Mechanic: Bending the rules in F1
How does it feel to be part of a Formula 1 team when it gets caught breaking the rules? Our SECRET MECHANIC has first-hand experience of such a scenario
So we get to the last race of a long season and Red Bull gets thrown out of qualifying for having an illegal car!
The offence in question, the introduction of an over-flexible front-wing flap, could be viewed in different ways: A team just desperately looking to push technical boundaries in the pursuit of performance, along with everyone else, or quite simply as cheating.
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