As the rich get richer, they also get faster. Last week the Mercedes Grand Prix team published accounts that showed they had spent more than £333 million on their 2019 Formula One campaign — a sum that only Ferrari come close to matching — and the fruits of that effort are still being enjoyed as their domination of the new season continues. New rules have robbed Mercedes of their so-called “party mode” qualifying set-up as all teams must now use the same engine settings for qualifying and racing from now on. However, there was no indication whatsoever that they had lost any edge in Monza as they claimed the first two slots on the grid for today’s Italian Grand Prix, their seventh front-row lockout in

Source: The Times September 06, 2020 03:33 UTC