Originally Posted by
Chandler_Racing
If you would have asked me before Brazil it would have been an "easy Max win." Now after seeing what Mercedes have done with the engine or their rear wing which I understand RB are gathering data to protest it is now "max by a small margin."
Pretty confident Honda reliability is there and they won't be forced to take engine penalties.
Also, in hindsight it was quite resourceful of Mercedes taking a engine penalty on a sprint race weekend as they have the opportunity to marginalize the pain of starting from the back on race day more so in the event of the qualifying DQ.
A precedent has been set in terms of penalties so don't foresee any further damage to max being accessed on Friday but who knows.