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Manchester City's financial reckoning is dominating the football world right now. Pep Guardiola took to social media with a message of defiance after the club was found guilty of deliberate financial rule-breaking spanning nine years, posting quote, we will get through this together. The fallout is massive and it is far from over.
Shifting to Formula One, Mercedes is seriously weighing a step backward heading into Singapore after their upgraded aero package at the relocated Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia delivered the opposite of what they wanted. Toto Wolff and his engineers are baffled by the pace drop, and reverting to older components is now firmly on the table. That is a brutal situation for a team that bet big on those parts.
And the FIA has wrapped up its investigation into the chaos that unfolded in Malaysia, where a software bug tied to wet-weather power restrictions froze half the grid behind the safety car. The governing body has now announced corrective measures ahead of Singapore, looking to make sure that kind of race-altering malfunction never happens again.
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