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Adapted from GMM
The curious outcome of the 'test-gate' saga is that, although found guilty of breaking the rules, Mercedes is reacting with relief at the outcome of the international tribunal' verdict.
Unhappy, Red Bull submitted to the tribunal that Mercedes should be fined $100 million - a la McLaren 'spygate' scandal - and docked 150 constructors' championship points, Bild newspaper claimed.
Ferrari, too, sounded furious that Mercedes got away with breaking the rules "virtually scot-free", after the German squad had pleaded to the judges that a light penalty - like sitting out the forthcoming three-day Silverstone test - was adequate.
"One only has to suggest to the judge what the penalty should be and even better, why not make it something light like a rap across the knuckles?" Ferrari said via its 'Horse Whisperer' online column.
The anonymous columnist ridiculed Mercedes' young drivers test ban, wondering what the judges would have decided if that event was not looming.
"Would they (Mercedes) have been forbidden from holding an end of year dinner?" said the Horse Whisperer.
Furthermore, the Telegraph newspaper reported that tyre supplier Pirelli, also officially reprimanded by the tribunal, "may yet decide to sue the FIA" for having wrongfully pressed charges and damaging its image.
The curious outcome of the 'test-gate' saga is that, although found guilty of breaking the rules, Mercedes is reacting with relief at the outcome of the international tribunal' verdict.
Unhappy, Red Bull submitted to the tribunal that Mercedes should be fined $100 million - a la McLaren 'spygate' scandal - and docked 150 constructors' championship points, Bild newspaper claimed.
Ferrari, too, sounded furious that Mercedes got away with breaking the rules "virtually scot-free", after the German squad had pleaded to the judges that a light penalty - like sitting out the forthcoming three-day Silverstone test - was adequate.
"One only has to suggest to the judge what the penalty should be and even better, why not make it something light like a rap across the knuckles?" Ferrari said via its 'Horse Whisperer' online column.
The anonymous columnist ridiculed Mercedes' young drivers test ban, wondering what the judges would have decided if that event was not looming.
"Would they (Mercedes) have been forbidden from holding an end of year dinner?" said the Horse Whisperer.
Furthermore, the Telegraph newspaper reported that tyre supplier Pirelli, also officially reprimanded by the tribunal, "may yet decide to sue the FIA" for having wrongfully pressed charges and damaging its image.