Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
Indeed, what you believe isn't what really matters. Here is your conspiracy theory that Toksport sent him to film specifically competitors of Mikkelsen and then specifically told their drivers not to cut on that specific corner.
Somehow Ingram and Rossel got the memo backwards then, as Ingram cut much more than Rossel, who was similar to Mikkelsen... and both meters off Lefevbre.
You know who the cameraman is, right? Or more importantly, who he works for / with, and in what capacity?

I wouldn't have said the 'conspiracy' involved the whole team. Just the one crew. In fact, such a small circle of trust to the point that none of the other crews being serviced by the same team (I hesitate to call them team-mates in this instance) probably had a clue the 'sting' was happening. But a sting WAS happening.

Taking the facts that are available to us into consideration, it seems that the protesting crew:

-knew this corner would be somewhere a committed driver with lots of Belgian experience would take a bigger than legal cut
-sent their man to film at that location with the express intent of gathering evidence of car 24 taking such a cut
-made sure they were as neat and tidy as possible to set a nice contrast
-sat on the evidence until the end of the event, then tried to use it to get a crew that had beaten them fairly resoundingly over three days of rallying enough of a penalty to overhaul them

I don't like it. The stewards shouldn't have entertained it. The organisers shouldn't have allowed it to happen. Tell me why I'm wrong.