End of April remember, their car was already fully designed and racing by then.
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End of April remember, their car was already fully designed and racing by then.
But they will continue to develop it the whole season! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
For me, this explains what happened after Spain. Stepney sabotaged Ferrari and gave some hints to McLaren.
Disgusting silver cars. And Macca fans call Ferrari cheaters. Macca are the true cheaters.
I hope that they are given points deduction, like in NASCAR.
this is going to run and run this story.
at the moment, we have to stress that these are allergations that are strongly refuted by those accused. we do not even know what the alledged material was or what it pertained to.
What we do know is that Ferrari have their knickers in a twist about something. I simply refuse to believe that they would have taken these steps without some sort of substantial proof. McLaren also wouldn't have stepped down Mike unless there was a strong suspicion there was some substance to this.
what I find more amazing though is that 2 exceptionally intelligent men would leave a f*cking paper trail behind. it is frankly astonishing!! this story gets stranger by the minute.
so, on the one hand, we have Ferrari claiming they have a smoking gun and on the other we have, if its true, unbeliveable gross stupidity.
I suggest we just see how this plays out before assuming anything at the moment.
now, what if it is true? well, I dont see that the FIA can punish McLaren if it was one individual responsible otherwise you would set a worrying president. if though, it looks like Mike wasn't acting alone then I dont see that they would have any option.
this is going to be the biggest controvacy since Schumacher was proven to have TC on his car. hopefully the FIA will be a little more rigid this time in their judgement should there be a case to answer.
I don't think the FIA can step in and punish until this whole mess has wound its way through the justice system. It wouldn't really be appropriate for them to do anything until then. The teams are independent commercial companies over which the FIA can only inforce the sporting and technical regulations of the championship. They can't get involved in telling the teams how to run their businesses and I doubt they can punish a team from gonig about its business in a way they disagree with.
Yes the charges are very serious and put F1 in a bad light but I'm not sure what they can do about it. And I dare say the FIA is a lot less upset about this than Mercedes and Vodafone are.
I don't think the way either Ferrari or McLaren have acted proves anything either way. I think you need to be seen to be whiter than white considering how serious the allegations are. These teams have to convince huge corporations to part with 10's of millions of dollars inorder to allow them to go racing. And those huge corporations are very protective of their brands and image.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
I'd think the stumbling block that would prevent McLaren being penalised here is Stepney... provided he did actually "sabotage" the Ferrari cars.
I think the two threads should be merged.
This is totally stupid! Not letting Mclaren race what the hell?
First of all no one knows if this is even true, Second, can you think of the damage it would do to take all of Macca's points off them because of one man.
To spoil the world championship and for sure annoy many fans so much that already the farce that is formula one will go down the pan for ever.
Lets say for instance a guy from a truck company gave another information about new wheels or somthing. What do you do take all the earnings off the company that recieved it.
utter rubbish, punish the man not the team, who have been working so hard slaving away night and day. Dont punish Lewis and Alonso who have been risking there lives for race wins.
Just a thought here: Ferreri have this super dooper seamless gear change transmission - could this have anything to do with that?
OK, maybe not :(
How can Ron be the devil? The DEVIL is red, isnt it?