I personally don't buy any of the conspiracy theories. Merc got barely beat in '21, then got it wrong in '22. They aren't going to give up titles for the show, and it would be too hard to "hide the money" at that level for any fixing to be going on. And if you see the Netflix clip of Toto trying to push the safety factor last year when they had it all wrong, you can see how desperate he was to claw back any advantage and get back in the hunt.


Though Q3, not looking as doom and gloom as some think. I don't know that I buy Lewis's claim of 1.5 seconds slower, but I expect RB and a few others might uncork true performance in qually and then we will finally see.