Whiners of the 2007 season

[ioan]

The season started and we already have several allegations of cheating, fraud an so on.

I thought about starting a thread about the whining cases, more or less founded, that we witness this season.

First we have Spyker starting the arbitration case against TorroRosso, RBR an SAF1.

Than there is Ron Dennis questioning parts of other teams cars.

The last news is that McLaren complained about three separate elements of 2007 Ferrari at the Oz GP.
However: <<It is understood that Whiting, the FIA's technical delegate, declared the F2007 legal.>>

Link: http://www.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlin...27100350.shtml

[BeansBeansBeans]

Teams will always protest the legality of the opposition's cars if they feel that rules are being broken and an unfair advantage is being gained. This has always been the way, and I don't know why you feel the need to trivialise it as whining.

If Chelsea fielded 12 players, Man Utd would probably complain. Would that be unreasonable?

[Ranger]

I predict we'll see a lot of whiners on this forum.

[555-04Q2]

New season, new drivers, same old cr@p

[CharlieJ]

Best way to stop the whining would be to have only two regulations.....
A set maximum amount of fuel for the race, and no wheel covers. Then let the teams do their best and see what technical solutions they come up with. (6 wheel Tyrrell anyone?)

[Big Ben]

In my view they all should shut up and accept everything!
Ioan, how comes that you didn't start a "whiners of the 2006 season" thread last year? forget about it... don't bother answering it... it's a waste of time.

[ioan]

forget about it... don't bother answering it... it's a waste of time.

You bet it is! :

[F1boat]

Dennis for accusing Ferrari and BMW of cheating and BMW for ruining his win in Melbourne.
Spyker for accusing SA team after being several seconds off the pace.
Flavio for bashing poor Heiki.

[CarlMetro]

The reason the sport has rules and regulations is to set limits of acceptability. It is the teams job to get as close to those limits as if physically and technically possible. If one team believes that another has gone past the limit in a particular area, or is stretching the definition of the regulation in the first place, then they have every right to ask for further investigations to be made.

I don't see it as whining, I see it as an appropriate course of action to take and would expect any team to do so.

ioan, I didn't see you produce a thread like this when Ferrari lodged their complaints about mass-damper systems, the extra fuel capacity on the BAR Honda or the tread width on Michelin's, why now? Because RD is pointing the finger at Ferrari? Of course my beloved Ferrari would never cheat, would they?

[harsha]

we know that ioan is blind to whatever ferrari does,it really doesn't come as a surprise to me