Originally Posted by
sollitt
There's a lot of talk here about money, image, the cost of repairing cars etc... But there's been no talk of the wider implications of allowing Meeke to continue to compete and to continue to risk lives.
Yes, there is risk inherent in rallying. But it's managed and calculated risk. When you stop managing risk, and allow known dangers to go unchecked, surely you are culpable when things go wrong?
However high the esteem in which we regard Meeke as a sportsman, he is still an employee of a company and they surely have both legal and moral responsibilities to ensure his safety and that of others who may be affected by his actions.
If you had a forklift driver working in your warehouse who had a propensity to run into things, knock things over and endanger life and limb, would you continue to employ them in that role?
If you had a builder who was always dropping their tools and materials or falling off scaffolding, would you keep sending them up the ladder?
It's been suggested already on this forum that the decree to dismiss Meeke came from higher up than team management.
Is it not possible, or even likely, that the parent company management have seen the results of the Portugal crash, which could very easily have involved fatalities, and determined that there is strong evidence of a pattern which is heading for disaster and that the risk is too great ... both to life and the company chequebook?