Once more, the much heralded 2017 Formula One season has not even started and already we have a question of which team came up with which loophole not-cheat first. A day after , Ferrari has shown its new racer with a very similar rear setup.

Yesterday we pointed out how Mercedes has a little wing sproutlet-thing in front of its main rear wing, looking every bit like a leftover from 2016's regulations that F1's rulemakers forgot about.

The 2017 Formula One season has not even started yet and already it looks like top team Mercedes…

Today we got to see the Ferrari SF70H and it sports the same wing-tree as the Mercedes. The difference is that Ferrari also has a tailfin, unlike the Mercedes. The wing thing mounts right on it.

F1 tech guru Craig Scarborough calls this ‘the T-Wing,’ though I am a personal fan of wing-sprout:

I should point out now that the new . If Ferrari was copying Mercedes, you’d think that McLaren would have done the same. At this point, I think it’d only be fair to say that Mercedes and Ferrari probably independently found the same loophole.

Have you been kvetching over the lack of orange on a McLaren Formula One car for the past few…

That’s not to say that F1 doesn’t have a history of teams looking over each other’s shoulders, though.

Poor Sebastian Vettel. It's been his lifelong dream to drive for Ferrari's Formula One team only to

I cannot get over how cutthroat F1 is getting in this . The season hasn’t even started!