The secret test performers Mercedes and Pirelli received a reprimand, and also Mercedes banned from the young driver test at Silverstone.
Last Thursday four judiciary members are heard proof from the FIA, Mercedes and Pirelli in turn during the seven-hour session at the FIA's headquarters in Paris.
After the hearing the judiciary declared that the test at the Circuit de Catalunya track, which involved the current Mercedes W04 car as well as its two drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg – hidden in black helmets – was in breach of the FIA's sporting regulations and that Mercedes "did obtain some material advantage" which "at least potentially gave an unfair sporting advantage".
"It is somewhat perplexing to say the least to see that the guilty party can get away virtually scot free for having derived 'an unfair sporting advantage,'" Ferrari stated in the 'Horse Whisperer' column to express its confusion over the penalty, referring to one of the findings of the FIA International Tribunal.
"Don't tell me that testing for three days on your own at the Catalunya circuit is the same as doing so with nine other teams at Silverstone with a host of young hopefuls at the wheel, in an area where the weather can still be changeable even in the height of summer.
"And what if this whole incident had taken place after the young driver test, what would have been the penalty then? Would they have been forbidden from holding an end of year dinner?"
"The way things are going in Formula 1 at the moment is becoming boring: you make a mistake, you race with an illegal component, but then you are told to just change it for the next race and we've seen what we've seen..." it said.
"All this reminds the Whisperer that if he ever finds himself running a Formula 1 team in the near future and that he gets off to a difficult start to the season, then all it needs is to organise a nice week of testing at the right moment and then maybe have to skip a later session, by which time, everything could be done and dusted. What do you reckon?"
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