The private agreement between the International Federation (FIA) and Ferrari, with which the Scuderia engines had been grounded in the investigation last week, has scandalized most grille equipment. "This matter has reached proportions similar to that of FIFA. There is only one letter of difference between FIA and FIFA," said Helmut Marko, Red Bull advisor, referring to corruption cases that splashed in May 2015 to the highest body of the world football

"In any other organization, this would be a political suicide. But Jean Todt has approved it," Marko added to the president of the FIA, also responsible for the five world titles of Michael Schumacher with Ferrari. According to the 76-year-old Austrian, "the conduct of the FIA ​​is a real scandal. They have discredited a sport where we invest millions of euros every year."

Red Bull, who finished 87 points at Ferrari in the last Constructors World Cup, also feels very economically disadvantaged. "We should have told Christian Horner to denounce the 21 million euros in prizes that would have given us for second place if Ferrari had been punished properly," Marko ironized in the newspaper Der Spiegel on the hypothetical guidelines to the sports director of his team.

38 points in three races

Of course, the improved performance of the Ferrari propeller from the Belgian GP was as noticeable as its decline after the Mexican GP. In fact, in the last three races of the championship, Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel could only add 38 points, for 87 of Mercedes or 76 of Red Bull.

Toto Wolff, head of the Silver Arrows, also did not miss the opportunity to charge against the FIA ​​and defined what happened as "a tremendous mess." "What Ferrari did was not right, but even worse was how the FIA ​​handled it," said the champion of the last six World Cups with the German team.

To the theses of Mercedes and Red Bull, McLaren, Renault, AlphaTauri, Racing Point and Williams joined the same week, who signed a joint statement calling for the FIA ​​"total transparency" on this matter. Only Haas and Alfa Romeo, Ferrari customer teams, remained on the sidelines.

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