F1 five-second warning rule stays despite FIA clearing safety concern

The FIA admitting the safety justification no longer holds but keeping the rule anyway tells you this was never purely about safety to begin with. That kind of institutional candour is rare, but it raises an obvious question about what the rule is actually for now — sporting order, broadcast clarity, or something else. Keeping a measure in place after its stated rationale has been resolved is the sort of thing that erodes driver and team trust in the regulatory process over time. Watch for this to resurface in the Technical Advisory Committee or driver briefings as the season progresses.