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Is Mercedes trying to outsmart the starting lights?

It's not surprising that Mercedes has been the top team for the past seven years. Every time the team knows how to come up with something new in order to be the boss of the competition. The last trick was the DAS system. Now it seems as if Mercedes is also anticipating the start lights for an even faster start. It's another very clever trick if it turns out to be true, but according to former F1-driver Robert Doornbos Mercedes might be trying to anticipate the start lights. This might enable the team to bypass the two-tenths human reaction speed. In Crashen in de Keuken, Doornbos discusses the bad start of Bottas who was allowed to start from P2 but ruined his start. After an extensive...
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