There’s famously no room for moral consideration in Formula 1’s sporting realm. Red Bull demonstrated this with its shrewd/cynical call to put Sergio Perez back into the Japanese Grand Prix so he could serve the five-second time penalty he’d accrued for whacking into the Haas of Kevin Magnussen. This exposed a longstanding loophole in F1’s sporting rules.
Having stopped Perez shortly after his Magnussen shunt and before the stewards’ investigation was concluded, Red Bull feared that he’d carry his censure over to the next race in
