The issue is that they may have evidence that it happened many times, but you can't argue that the drivers would have been driving the way they were after they would have been warned by the FIA/their team...
The gap is closing now, yes. But this is the exact same strategy that Merc has used in their dominant years (and every other dominant team before that by the way).
You just quit development halfway through the year. The rest will keep developing and closing in on you, but you can already focus everything on next year so you get the advantage back when that starts.
I'm sorry, but Calderon dominated the W-series, but did not get any resemblance of succes in F2 before that, and ended up 29th in IndyCar in 2022.
Why do you think a driver who did not even finish high in the same W-series somehow has what it takes to make it in F1.
I believe it was Tost who once said that F1 is by definition not discriminatory. Teams spend tens of millions to find fractions of a second per lap. If putting a woman behind the wheel would help, they would have done it in a heartbeat. And as soon as there is someone who is faster, F1 wants that person, regardless of gender or race or whatever.
I really don't see enough similarities for that. The Massa-case is resting on the FIA knowing aboutfoul play and covering it up. In 2021, whatever you may think of it, there was no cover up, and an investigation after a protest by Merc stated that it was within the rules.
I am a financial accountant in a fairly large company. When external auditors look at the figures, they add up everything that they find. It doesn't matter if the error is increasing or decreasing the profit-figure, they calculate the total of the errors.
Probably, but I do fail to think of something worse (without falling into swearwords as a name)