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Had the title been: "Did Glock slow down on purpose to let Hamilton win?", I suspect the discussion would not have been so heated.
But as it stands, the title of this thread insinuates bribery on the part of McLaren and this is libelous.
Now we have both Massa and Glock explaining what really happened, and the author of this silly thread still tries to defend his argument. Now how stupid is that?
Bowers: Let it go. I do not think anyone thinks it was arranged. Outside of the dollars involved for points in the championship the logistics of setting it up in the heat of a race and communications made it impossible. Valve Bounce and I agree that your thread heading was provocative. I have read posts by you on other threads and appreciate your thoughts.
Please just drop it.
Besides you are giving the rest of us 'Crazy Canucks' a bad name. :D
No not really. The Spa thing was to do with possible poor judgement on behalf of the stewards, what you're suggesting here is a conspiracy involving two teams at the least.Quote:
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I thought he was refering to the conspiracy theory about Kimi deliberately giving up a win by driving into the wall at Spa during the rain.
Spa smelled like a 5 day old flounder totally off ice, IMO. But nothing was ever suggested about any of the teams in that case, as far as I know. It was all to do with the stewards.Quote:
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Nothing against your original question. But as several have mentioned, considering this situation developed in the last few moments of the race, how exactly would McLaren have negotiated an acceptable bribe to Toyota? I mean, it's not as if they had an hour or two to hammer out an agreement. How would the need to slow have been communicated to Glock without the FIA picking up on it?
Me, I love a good conspiracy theory. But in order for a conspiracy to work, there must be time enough for ample planning on how to pull it off. In this case, there was not.
I'll tell you what I did expect though: a stewards' decision penalizing Hamilton for something or another. I suspect that's why he drove what seemed to be the most (overly) cautious race that I can remember from him. If not for the steering wheel not being secured, I figured they'd get him for groping a grid girl... surely he must have done something! :D
If Glock had wanted to finish behind Hamilton, he need only have pitted for wet tyres along with everybody else.
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Thank the lord! Common sense has returned to the forum!Quote:
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Best post of the year! :D
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Extremely good point, and its a bit of a wonder why it has taken so long for someone to express it. However there is always, always a way around anything if you believe in a conspiracy. I've already stated that I don't think there was a conspiracy but it wouldn't be too hard to come with an explanation as to why the Toyota's pitted... they would've wanted to be in the points but didn't expect to stay ahead of Lewis at the end so Glock slowed or whatever.
You could even say why didn't they just sabotage their own car so that they didn't finish the race, but in the end you can always argue back on forth on this one like most conspiracy theories, from landing on the moon, to JFK, to Elvis. You can argue forever.