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Letting the driver off whenever the team breaks a rule would have pretty disastrous consequences. There'd be an incentive to unsafely release, there'd be an incentive to run out-of-spec components, there'd be an incentive to mess with tyre pressures, there'd be an incentive to mess with the fuel load, etc.

I agree with your take in general (though the out-of-specs part usage seems a little too far-fetched). What my point is that it is a minor infraction with little to no bearing on the qualifying session and very little actual risk (as they weren't fighting for position so there is no scramble to minimise time in the pit lane). Giving a grid penalty taking into account the above points would have been unbelievably harsh

Wow common sense prevailed. It would have been stupid to give a grid penalty to Russell for his team's infraction

Checo has truly shown up in japan

Let us see if merc's impressive form from FP3 carries over to qualifying.

I don't know man. If verstappen wins the race by 30 seconds, we may as just give him the title

Most exciting session of the season. I don't see how anything can best this. \s

God the sputtering of rain has turned it into a dull session

Why¿?

The fact is while they do not teach us taxes directly, school equips us with the skills needed to understand and calculate taxes amongst other things. I would say that is more important than directly teaching about taxes.

I don't know man. Bottas did manage to sneak a few wins per year even though he was up against Hamilton

My bad. My brain just skipped over it somehow.

can just create different classes like they do in some forms of wrestling.

Wrestling is divided into classes in addition to being segregated by sex and not in place of segregation by sex/gender