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The Morning After: Politics as Usual

The action on track may not have even had the chance to heat up yet, but off-track it took less than a day for the fireworks to start in Austria. Indeed, it was fair to assume a protest of DAS was incoming, but that made it no less amusing to see the shenanigans play out – a team (Mercedes) shows up having exploited a loophole with some technical trickery, and another team tries to employ a bit of regulatory skulduggery to stop them in their tracks. Almost as much as the cars themselves, it’s these bits of politicking that make F1, well… F1, and by god I’ve missed it. That said, I don’t see how anyone can be surprised by the result. Even setting aside the holes in Red...
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