It still makes me wonder why people don't see the difference between something being inspired by other ideas and something being 1:1 copies to the nanometer that require data transfere and something being simply corrupt. There was something called spygate a couple of years ago and Ferrari and McLaren payed a high price for it. Now we have a similar situation and one (or two?) team(s) get basicly away with it losing a few points and one time pocket money for little Lance while still being able to use a technical solution that is deemed illegal for the upcomming races. Doesn't make any sense to me. I hope people are also aware that the current team boss of the Mercedes F1 team has invested into Aston Martin as a shareholder, wich will be in one year what Tracing Point is right now. Wierd coincidence, isn't it?
Ferrari was often called out to be the main cheating team and everybody was whining that they weren't penalized last year. Now it's clear that they currently pay the price for it as they are so much down on power that it will make their engines unattractive for years to come and put them into the midfield up to a point where they weren't since the early 90s. On the other hand we have Mercedes and their B-team expanding the Formula Mercedes that we currently have getting even more advantages and people seem to be fine with it, that private teams that allready struggle are first of all dependend on those big manufacturers to be somewhat competetive yet they have even smaller chances of getting into the points to score some needed points for financial returns.
End result: if you want to see fair and interesting motor racing basicly every team should get their ass up and start an appeal asap. Moto GP shows that it is possible to get interesting motorsport between big manufacturers, b-teams, and backmarkers while keeping a fair playingfield and still offering interesting options for big manufactuers. F1 is just five years late and it shows big time.