F1: Mercedes were probably cheating big – Brundle

Former F1 driver and now Sky Sports TV commentator Martin Brundle says he thinks the Mercedes team were cheating by a lot in the USGP.

Mercedes team boss, Wolff, stated that Mercedes thought their set-up may be on the “limit” but that they’d do it again.

“I take a disqualification running for a race win and seeing the performance against running P3 and ending up 25 seconds adrift,” he told Sky Sports.

“So every day of the week I’ll go for the disqualification.”

Brundle was asked whether it was worth the risk with the former F1 driver replying: “Absolutely not. I think Toto is being a flippant there.

“Toto and Lewis have done a very good job this weekend of saying nothing to see here, look at all those others they must have been cheating as well or whatever.

“Cheating is too strong a word -found to be outside of the regulations.

“But, you know, some teams lifted their cars to be certain because it was a Sprint weekend because it was bumpy, drivers taking curbs, talk of a headwind pushing the cars down a little bit more even on the back straight.

“And I don’t believe that Mercedes was illegal by just a small amount, it was a reasonable chunk.”

“Also I think we have an exceptional circumstance here, we know how much performance comes from lowering these ground-effect aerodynamic cars,” he continued.

“They should be paying more attention post-race. And by the way I think the FIA do a great job of policing the technical aspects of Formula 1, post-race they should be checking all of the skids.”