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Originally Posted by DaveK
Ferrari cheat, break the rules and get a measly $100k fine? Last year Alonso won by having his co-driver ordered to crash to bring out the safety car?
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What was the cheat? They broke the rules and got the maximum penalty outlined by said rules. These teams succeed or fail by pushing the rules to the limit. It's no different in the driving than it is in the car design, pit strategy, whatever.
The main crap that bothers me is things like Hamilton driving down the pit over the blue line (twice!) with nothing done, or when the track workers craned his car out of a gravel trap and put it back on the track back in 2007.
The rest of it, while it doesn't make for exciting racing, is just teams doing what they need to do. That's just how it goes. The FIA makes the rules, and the teams push the boundaries of them.