Lewis has avoided a penalty for wearing a nose stud after producing a medical exemption letter.
Mercedes were fined €25k as they submitted a scrutineering form saying he wasn’t wearing anything.
Presumably Mercedes will have to include the price of the nose stud in their spending budget.
Or will they??? Who decides?
Knowing the way accountants work, the budget scrutinisers will be including as much of a teams expenditures as they can. The teams will be arguing this that or the other shouldn’t be included. 2021 was the first year of the cap, there must be a lot of grey areas.
Apparently and this is just apparently, Lewis prefers to keep sex out of his relationships. Which means that his girlfriends may not know everything about him!
I think he’s the most interesting f1 driver from personal point of view. I would like to see an in depth interview with him. Something like a three hours interview which doesn’t just ask superficial questions but goes into the matter.
And too many boring races during the year. I guess we watch it for the occasional gem, but not enough of those. With 24 races next year, let’s hope the vast majority won’t be a yawn fest (they will, of course).
I increasingly dislike the juvenile C4 pre-race coverage.* I’m an old fart, but Walker/Hunt/Palmer had seriousness, dignity and insight and would like to see more of that approach. Liberty/Netflix -bah humbug.
(*That said, Mark Webber is occasionally amusing.)