Mercedes have been suspended from next month's young driver test and both the team and Pirelli reprimanded for their respective parts in 'Testgate', the International Tribunal has announced. After a morning of deliberations in Paris following Thursday's mammoth, and at times heated, seven-hour hearing into the controversial Barcelona tyre test, Formula 1's governing body announced that both parties had been punished for contravening the sport's regulations. However, given pre-verdict fears had been that Mercedes might face a more hefty sanction should they duly have been adjudged to have contravened the rules, their subsequent reprimand and ban from the three-day Silverstone test is...
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