Did Someone try to steal Mercs win at Monza?

In what appears to be a case of miscommunication, the FIA had not been informed that Pirelli usually accepts the earlier measurement – with the tyres fully heated in their still connected blankets – as its definitive official "starting pressure."

When Bauer did his extra checks, it was at a stage when Pirelli had already accepted the Mercedes tyres as "legal", while knowing that, with the blankets disconnected, the temperature and pressure could only drop.

So in effect it would seem that Bauer was wasting his time by measuring pressures in the last few minutes before the start, with the blankets disconnected.

Given that the FIA is trying to police the situation at the request of Pirelli – and has to take all the parameters that Pirelli sets at face value – it would seem that perhaps the tyre maker didn't quite get its story straight.

Indeed, Pirelli confirmed to the Stewards that Mercedes had complied with its own requirements, vis a vis its blankets plugged-in measurements.

Once this became apparent the Stewards decided that, while there was an anomaly in the pressures recorded by the FIA, there was also a grey area in the procedures and timing of the measurements.

The Stewards also accepted that once the cars started moving, the tyres heated up again, and the pressures went up. Indeed, data from the cars showed that throughout the race the Mercedes tyres stayed well above the minimum requirement, and the FIA was satisfied by that.

Pirelli measure the tyre pressures at the start of the race.
So... what exactly is the start of the race? The start of the formation lap? The start when the red lights go out? When exactly is this time that the tyre pressures have to be measured?
As usual, the FIA regulations are vague.
38.14(a) Speaks of a "starting procedure" that can be modified because of sudden onset of rain, where this start procedure begins "at the 10 minute point" in the countdown.
38.3 The approach of the start will be announced by signals shown ten minutes, five minutes, three minutes, one minute and fifteen seconds before the start of the formation lap indicates the start to be when that countdown reaches zero: the start is the start of the formation lap.
38.14(b) Speaks of a race start that has been delayed, and how the new race start time will be announced. That start time is the start of the formation lap.
Appendix 1, Part A speaks of how the FIA needs to know the "START TIME OF THE RACE". This is the time of the start of the formation lap.
but
27.5 speaks of activation the rear wing flap 2 laps after the start of the race, suggesting that it is when the red lights go out
Several regulations speak of cars starting the race from the pit lane. Since they do not do the formation lap, that again suggests the start is when the red lights go out.
38.2 speaks of cars starting the race from the end of pit lane: All such cars may then join the race once the whole field has passed the end of the pit lane for the first time after the start. Since the first time they actually pass the end of pit lane is on the formation lap, and that does not count, then the definition of start must be when the red lights go out.
38.9 Talks about how once the formation lap is completed, "there will be a standing start." because this happens after the formation lap, then the definition of start must be when the red lights go out.
40.16 A race can be started behind a safety car. This is the start of the actual race when the red lights go out, no formation lap is performed.
So if Pirelli wish to measure the pressure of tyres at the "start" of a race, when exactly are they supposed to do this? Depending on which rule you look at, it is either the start of the formation lap, or when racing starts as the red lights go out.

The FIA regulations are inconsistent.

Either way, it isn't 5 minutes before the formation lap, when was when they actually did it at Monza.