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I was also at that race in 2016 ........
Where SRO got it wrong was allowing the Mercs to take the penalty under a full course yellow on the first lap ........ what should have been somewhere in the region of 2 laps + penalty actually turned into 1 lap and a bit which with a clear track and the field bunched up wasn't going to be too hard to claw back - they did not have a massive performance advantage after the mapping was reverted back to original spec - but they were driven hard and well by professional drivers with the bit between their teeth.
Aston and Bentley effectively did the same this year after starting at the back - should they have been BOPd - no of course not, but they certainly took advantage of the field being close together in the first couple of hours and the subsequent FCYs.
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