Would the People who Defended Nigel Stepney's Credibiity please Stand Up?

[woody2goody]

It seems to me that he's a bit of an idiot, and in light of those two fools plotting together, makes me believe that no one team should have been punished for this debacle.

[tinchote]

Fact is that people changes teams all the time, from drivers to cooks, and most of them do not start a big scandal when dealing with another team. So I would have to conclude that Stepney is indeed an idiot

[wmcot]

It seems to me that he's a bit of an idiot, and in light of those two fools plotting together, makes me believe that no one team should have been punished for this debacle.

But how smart is the team that illegally uses the data from an "idiot?"

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64789

"Don't get me wrong, Formula One I've worked in for many years. I've enjoyed it, I've made a living out of it, it's been a very good experience in life, but I think I prefer to go into a sort of a grass roots racing again."

Hmm, like anyone in F1 was going to touch him with a barge-pole after Spygate anyway?

[Robinho]

wouldn't matter if they did, he's been banned from working in F1 for lfe

wouldn't matter if they did, he's been banned from working in F1 for lfe

Not yet he hasn't. The FIA hearing inviting Stepney to explain why he shouldn't face a 'lengthy ban' has not taken place.

More pressingly, he will be in an Italian courtroom in the next 12 months.

[Robinho]

i did wonder, but there is a throwaway line in the middle of the ITV-F1 report on the same that says he has been, which now appears to have been changed.

i'll be interested to see if anything comes out of the case, i still feel that there is plenty more we don't know about what happened which could be quite juicy, although i doubt anything that will salvage any of the damaged reputations to date

[samuratt]

This guy, judging by his own comments, has lost his mind.

The way I see it is that he passed technical data in order to gain money (by selling the secrets document or by achieving a better job at another team).

[markabilly]

"I think, at the end of this year or at the end of 2007, I was looking to get out of Ferrari anyway; whether it was going to be in Formula One I wasn't quite sure. I think Formula One was going away from a direction I really wanted to go."

Where?? to being honest and transparent

[N. Jones]

Yikes.... this whole thing is such a mess....

And, I must agree with the words posted here. Did he really think any engineer would take specs from a rival car and just use to jump up and down and scream - "Mommmy, Mommy, looky what Ferrari is doing!!!"???