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"Is Merc cheating again with a radar system to outsmart the starting lights" ?

According the latest ! => https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/63715...g-lights-.html

It's not surprising that Mercedes has been the top team for the past seven years. Every time the team knows how to come up with something new in order to be the boss of the competition. The last trick was the DAS system. Now it seems as if Mercedes is also anticipating the start lights for an even faster start.

It's another very clever trick if it turns out to be true, but according to former F1-driver Robert Doornbos Mercedes might be trying to anticipate the start lights. This might enable the team to bypass the two-tenths human reaction speed.

The slow-motion images show three red lights on the Finn's steering wheel. All three are on when the start lights above the grid are at four. The images show that Valtteri Bottas isn't looking at the big lights, but at his steering wheel. As soon as the lights on his steering wheel go out the Mercedes makes a run for it.

The problem of Bottas was that he saw above him just in time that the lights were still on. He had to get off the gas to avoid a false start. But if Doornbos is right Mercedes was very close to a good anticipation, because a millisecond later the lights indeed went out !

Lewis did it great with the new system ,his car took off like a bullet and won at least one sec. in the first straight at the start