[Driver] 2018 F1 silly season.

[Akrapovic]

To be honest, that's pretty standard. You don't invite staff into briefings who will be leaving soon. Most companies that deal with technology put staff straight onto gardening leaving rather than just stop inviting them to meetings. In California where you have this rotating door of top software engineers between Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc, the same set of engineers are always getting forced time off as they move company every few years.

F1 drivers are an odd one out in that you can't do that. I think even in my work, and I'm bottom rung, I'd get gardening leaving if I was moving to a competitor. I certainly wouldn't be in technical meetings.

DNFs and technical problems are a RBR speciality anyway. Dan will get plenty of those, but so will Max.