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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Glad you put that in Ioan. Thats Mclaren's way of definately getting such a system banned......

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That's clear after all it's easier and cheaper to get something banned than to develop one for yourself too.
Just their way of doing it is, like always, let's say a bit hypocrite.

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Originally Posted by ioan

This isn't true there were other cases when the constructors points were lost but the driver kept his points, I wish I could tell you from the top of my head those occasions, but I remember this happened at least to Hakkinen once (maybe someone has a better memory than I and can clear this).

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Austria 2000. McLaren was stripped of the 10 points but MH kept the win.

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Originally Posted by tinchote

Austria 2000. McLaren was stripped of the 10 points but MH kept the win.

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I knew I can count on one of the best around here! :up:
My memory isn't the same anymore. :\

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Originally Posted by ioan

I knew I can count on one of the best around here! :up:
My memory isn't the same anymore. :\

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Yeah, my goog... I mean, memory, is really good ;) :p :

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Originally Posted by ioan

That's clear after all it's easier and cheaper to get something banned than to develop one for yourself too.
Just their way of doing it is, like always, let's say a bit hypocrite.

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A Michael Schumacher fan calling McLaren's hypocrites is quite funny.
Is being hypocritical in your view a bad thing concerning F1 matters?

That aside, good work on the McLaren and Mika race. I had completely forgotten! Why was the car illegal, was it a seal or something?

Obviously if the FIA are to make the favouritism equal between McLaren and Ferrari, McLaren will have a rosy future for a good few decades :P

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Originally Posted by raphael123

That aside, good work on the McLaren and Mika race. I had completely forgotten! Why was the car illegal, was it a seal or something?

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Yeah, a seal on the ECU was missing.

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Originally Posted by tinchote

Yeah, a seal on the ECU was missing.

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What a riot :D

So a clear aero dynamic rules violation with 10mm wider bargeboards vs. a missing seal. Even after investigating the FIA admitted they thought the seal fell of due to the vibrations of the race car. Quite different to a 10mm wider aerodynamic device.. I would say.

Ioan even though you never claimed so, you aren't comparing apples to apples.

I say raphael123s FIA-Ferrari favouritism claims still stand true!

If that is the case, did the McLaren car start the race off as legal then?

I know that was the case in Brazil with DC, where he and the team lost their points!

In Malaysia, the cars were illegal from start to finish, they were designed illegal. Still, the drivers kept their points.

You can't blame Ferrari for the FIA favouritising them I guess (unless they paying them money or whatever - HIGHLY UNLIKELY!), but you shouldn't deny it either.

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Originally Posted by jjanicke

What a riot :D

So a clear aero dynamic rules violation with 10mm wider bargeboards vs. a missing seal.

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Well a tweaked ECU might give some serious advantage.

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Originally Posted by jjanicke

Even after investigating the FIA admitted they thought the seal fell of due to the vibrations of the race car.

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Link please!

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Originally Posted by ioan

That's clear after all it's easier and cheaper to get something banned than to develop one for yourself too.

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True.

Now, some of us Ferrari fans can remember the Scuderia lobbying the FIA to ban Active Suspension back in 1993.

The Scuderia argued that such systems were in danger of creating a spending war which would harm the overall competitiveness of Formula One.

Of course, the fact that the F93A was an absolute pig of a chassis that handled like a shopping trolley had nothing to do with it*


*I'm a Ferrari fan.....I'm duty bound to say that. OK, I don't believe it, but it's in the small-print of a Tifosi contract that I have to say it.