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Originally Posted by E86Z4MC
It's been said that the Mercedes Silverstone update in 2021 was worth 0.3 tenths per lap and cost less than a million dollars. So net, every bit of extra spending certainly can lead to meaningful improvements. Which have broad implications for both last year and this year's cars' development race.
Given the cloud already over last year's ending, if there is another any outage found, the FIA's credibility is going to come into (further) question if they can't fundamentally restore trust in the sport.
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Hammy quote turned into another F1 tabloid article. Honestly they took his quote somewhat out of context. There is no validity to his statements anyways, he and his team could say anything really. No way to see if they are telling the truth. Lets not act like every update always brings positive gains. A lot of times they are tested on number two car and binned after practice 1.
What I can see is they are already moving goalposts. Last week it was "RB and AM went massively over budget". Some articles said in excess of 10 million. Now..switching to articles saying updates less than $500k could have given Merc the championship. Almost preemptively trying to argue RB small overage is a big deal.
Lewis did say in that interview, he believes in new president Mohammed and what ever the findings he will accept.