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I'm not sure how anyone could argue the Mercedes didn't have a clear advantage in 2016.
They qualified 1-2-3-4-5-6. They were demoted 5 minutes and still finished on the podium on the lead. Whilst you could argue that FCY managed to claw back some of that time, they still managed to go from last, to second. That overtook literally the entire field, after locking out the first 3 rows.
Can anyone name a time when any other manufacturer in GT3 has qualified 1-6, served a 5-minute penalty, and still finished ahead of everybody but one car? If Audi qualified 1-2-3-4-5-6 then there would be cries of a VW managers head on a stake. If the only example that can be brought up is a single car (rather than an entire fleet from a manufacturer), and a penalty that's a fraction of the one Mercedes got, and a car that didn't podium, then I think that about sums it up. Nothing is even close to what happened in 2016, hence the massive fall out over it all.
Once again (since it seems to keep getting missed): SRO have made balls ups with BoP before. Turns out, BoP is hard. Who'd have thought? Saying the ACO BoP is bad doesn't mean you're an SRO fanboy. Saying the SRO BoP is bad (or was) doesn't make you an ACO fanboy. That kind of attitude is far too simple and is for simple people who think the world is black and white. You can like SRO And admit they got stuff wrong.
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