Lol, now this has turned into a clown show. "intense lobbying by FIA that Mercedes do not do so" 

We might ended up with ANOTHER top secret 'settlement' like how they did it with Ferrari.

Mercedes gets a top secret bump in power for next year? They get extra developmental tokens? Mercedes gets extra sticky tires? Bigger budget cap? Higher split of price money like Ferrari?

FIA is just digging a hole bigger and deeper as time goes on. 

Honestly, FIA should just announce they have invalidated the Abu Dhabi result because their own officials didn't follow proper procedures, that race didn't happened. Max gets to keep his WDC, Mercedes still takes the Constructor. Only loser will be Max getting one less official win, but small prize to pay to win the WDC. 

With the race invalidated, Mercedes have no race result to appeal to the appeal court. FIA happy also.


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