Red Bull and Mercedes now make each other's lives difficult in the pit lane too

The pit crews of both Mercedes and Red Bull refused to remove the air pressure cables for each other in Qatar. As a result, Max Verstappen had to steer a lot sharper than usual for his pit stop, while Lewis Hamilton was somewhat hampered by his World Cup rival's team when pulling away.

Normally, teams always remove these cables when others make pit stops, but it's not as if this is a rule recorded in the book of F1 regulations. It's more of an unwritten rule, but Mercedes and Red Bull no longer care about that at this stage of the season. It has been reported that Mercedes started this 'tactic' in Brazil and Red Bull decided to copy that behaviour at the Losail International Circuit.