Sabotaging a driver during championship battle is unacceptable.Quote:
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Sabotaging a driver during championship battle is unacceptable.Quote:
Originally Posted by theugsquirrel
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Originally Posted by F1boat
There's a big difference between sabotaging and favouring. Of the three drivers up for it, I'm hoping Alonso gets it. However, what's wrong with a team boss deciding who should win in this situation? He's done all the work to put his team together and build the car etc, why shouldn't he decide? If I was Ron Dennis I'd want to decide. The FIA don't allow team orders because it's supposedly bad for the sport, but is all this business any better?
It's not defensiveness, it's simply anger. It annoys the hell out of me that the FIA, or more particularly Max Mosley, are doing such a good job of damaging a sport I have enjoyed for more than 30yrs.Quote:
Originally Posted by mstillhere
As I've said before, this is unprecedended and it is also unwarranted. In its most simple terms it is the governing body abusing its power to humiliate a team owner, in much the same way as Mosley attempted to humiliate Jackie Stewart recently. Of course it's more complex than that with all that has been going on this season, but that's at its core.
And that's where it should have ended. Ron Dennis had no need to extend such an invitation in response to accusations of inequality within the team, but he did. Why the FIA were invited to get involved, or took it upon themselves to get involved only Max knows for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
Funny how two of those three left McLaren without a title to their name, and the other may do the same. "Favouritism", among other things, is a familiar cry of a defeated driver who does not want to admit his team-mate did a better job. And I say that as an admirer of all three of those drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by F1boat
The practicalities of what the inspector will be doing, and under which FIA rule simply makes me laugh.
Finally, we know know that if a driver or even the media raise a question of favouritism within a team in future then the FIA inspectors will be sent in. Yeah right, or course they will. :rolleyes:
Attempting to blackmail your boss in order to get preferential treatment is unacceptable. Let's not forget that if FA had kept his trap shut the chances are this situation would not be happening. Regardless of whether or not RD invited the FIA to send this chap along, making it public only adds fire to all the conspiracy theories that are floating around - this thread is evidence enough of that. Personally I think the FIA need to take a good long look at how they've handled this whole affair.Quote:
Originally Posted by F1boat
Maybe FIA should take full responsibilty of Alonso's car. Surely FIA's own mechanics would be impartial enough to give him a chance to win, why not put Alonso in his own, seperate garage safe sabotage if McLaren isn't to be trusted. ;)
Better still. Why don't the FIA cancel the Brazilian GP and meet in Paris to decide who they want to win the WDC. Of course they could invite the heads of certain motorsport federations to help them decide.
It seems to me that the 5 grid place penalty the FIA gave Alonso in Hungary was none of the FIA's business. I know Ron Dennis has invited a Spanish FIA rep to Brazil himself but this is presumably due to the fact that the FIA said they would penalise Mclaren if they felt Alonso was being mistreated.
Is this really in the power of the FIA or ias this Moseley being a facist ?
Would you like to enlarge on this discussion please, as this is rather cryptic right now. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by seppefan
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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce
Does the FIA really have the power to become involved in the various teams to the extent they are this season?
The situation in Hungary was an inter team scenario, nothing to do with the FIA and yet they became involved. Is that because Moseley sees it as his right, does the FIA really have this kind of power? which in my book is over the top and miss placed
I dont see how one FIA official, would probably doesn`t understand a thing about mechanics could really notice any wrong doing... I think its just a `show` to make people believe that there will be fairness, and a way for McLaren to cover their backs when they cheat by saying that they had someone looking !
The FIA and McLaren have clearly shown that they want Hamilton champion and McLaren are proven cheaters, so I dont believe poor Alonso will get treated fairly to be honest.
The british press has done all it can to make Alonso look like a coward and Hamilton into a little angel. Its all part of the `Lewis Hamilton Show`.