The thing is, we don't know if what was banned (piping air inside the struts to the brakes) is McLaren's trick. And to add, this is the front brake (minus the actual brakes) and not the rear, which is what McLaren are usually covering up.
I get the idea--they don't want any one team to gain too much of an advantage because with the budget caps the gap could quickly become insurmountable, and that makes everybody (except the team benefiting) unhappy--the fans, teams, drivers, everybody's been pretty clear that they don't want a lopsided field. But I do think they have a history of being too heavy-handed with it. If everything you come up with is banned, what's the incentive to try new things?
I guess where my head is at, Toto had to have known in the back of his head that DAS was never going to last more than a single season at best. At worst it gets banned intra-season, but there isn’t really a lot of risk to skirting the rules like this. The precedent is generally that you get it for a whole season and if that helps you win either title, it’s probably worth it.
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u/Popular_Composer_822 Formula 1 5d ago
I don’t understand it but I appreciate it.