While the FIA and Formula believe that banning qualifying party-modes will reign in the advantage enjoyed mainly by Mercedes in those crucial moments of Q3, levelling the Formula 1 field made necessary by the relentless excellence by the World Champions. It can be seen as a feather in their cap that the powers that be an attempt to castrate their immense power-unit which has simply left their rivals with no answer for much of this decade. In other words, if you can't beat them, penalise them! But this latest development does not perturb Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff who claims that Leiws Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will actually benefit from the directive. Speaking to The Race, Wolff...
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