It was inevitable. Once the FIA declared mounting the rear mirrors on the Halo acceptable it was only a matter of time until someone pushed the boundaries. Ferrari may have forced the governing body to go that way, their intricate housing design idea brewed and ready to be bottled in an instant, but the Scuderia is that team. The thing is, while the situation was dealt with well in Barcelona – allowing Ferrari to run the questionable mirror vanes for one event only as removing bonded carbon fibre on site is a bit of a tricky job – without clearly defining new rules on the matter the sport has risked opening a can of worms on an already murky area in the regulations. Either purposely...
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