Arrows, the problem is RD's incoherence when talking about this topic. I'm quoting from the
link that Valve posted:
1) RD says "Ferrari run an illegal car in Australia". That's a lie. The car passed scrutineering several times during that GP, and there was nothing outside the regulations. Afterwards, a
clarification by FIA deemed the floor illegal. This is no different than McLaren's third pedal in 98 or the Michelin tyres in 03: was McLaren "running an illegal car" back then? Hypocrite.
2) He first says that Stepney told McLaren about the rear wing separator, and later he says that it was "visible for everyone": but they needed someone to tell them? Yeah right.
3) As has already been mentioned here, it is ok to encourage employees to secretly tell the authorities about something not legal within their team. RD seems to think that the right path to do this is to tell your competition first
4) And he keeps talking about the "illegal device". If we have to believe him, we have to assume that the marshalls at Australia are corrupt? Why doesn't he ask for punishment for these officials?
5) He says McLaren "installed a firewall" so that Coughlan avoided receiving emails from Stepney. So, McLaren's computer technicians cannot make one of their users to filter his email. I have to assume then that McLaren has a
huge problem with spam
6) RD says that Ferrari has no evidence of anyone other than Coughlan at McLaren with knowledge of the documents. Yet Ferrari has Coughlan's affidavit saying otherwise. He says that Coughlan showed a diagram "but without saying where it came from", and that Neale apparently "closed his eyes" or something ( ;) ) when Coughlan tried to show him. But they didn't know, yeah right. Try to imagine the situation: Coughlan tries to show Ferrari's documents to Neale, he refuses to see them, and he doesn't mention the episode to anyone else at McLaren's :eek:
7) When he addresses the use of the Ferrari documents (quite unnecessarily, I would say, if he had already established that the documents never were at their factory), he only mentions use of "performance enhacements". As has been mentioned several times, of course they cannot use Ferrari's blueprints in April or May to do any changes to their car already running races. But the documents were about way more than just drawings of the car. There was a lot of operational data, which of course he doesn't mention.
8) Next he says that "Coughlan acted secretly", after having mentioned at least two attempts of Coughlan to show the documents to other people at McLaren.
9) The last few paragraphs sound quite convincing to me. But they don't change the previous contents of the letter.
In summary, quite a liar, our friend RD, and a bad one for that matter.
