Not really, choosing not to penalize those teams for cheating because of the championship context is a pretty spineless decision if you ask me. It also only adds to the almost universal belief in the Formula One world that the FIA favours Ferrari. Especially considering the draconian penalty applied to McLaren earlier in the season, and all of a sudden the rules don't really matter?

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So how we define honourable? Getting shafted and taking it, then getting shafted and taking it? Maybe McLaren should just take it instead of getting shafted.

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The lenghts to which you McLaren fanboys are able to go to while defending your team are amazing. You do, however, need some perspective. McLaren was caught with almost a thousand pages of Ferrari documentation, and for that, they were stripped of one year's worth of constructors' points. They weren't banned, so sponsors' decals were still on TV, hence the cash flow remained uninterrupted. Granted, they will have earned a little less money than they would have if it hadn't been for the whole scandal, but nevertheless, in future seasons they won't suffer from lack of funding. In my book, this is very mild punishment for a very flagrant foul. They didn't mess with fuel temperatures or fiddle with aerodynamics; they went out and stole their main rival's technical documents. And their defense was, frankly, invented by three-year-olds: We didn't use it! We are supposed to believe that, although they had 700 pages of Ferrari papers, they didn't take so much as a peek? Right, I bet they only photocopied all that because someone needed a really big stack of papers to put under their washing machine to stop it rattling. Right.

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Ivan, you got the point, and more

This cheater called ron dennis, got used to pose as a fair play man, but never was, since Prost days, to the present, he plays hard on internal mclaren politics

And what is worse, about the so called "100 m. fine" ; he joked and laughed about it, during the Belgian GP race weekend, he said that "this will not compromise our yer, as we got the FOM prizes, we will pay less than half of this amount" (he said somethign alike, to be honest)

He and his "loser hamilton" should be quiet, even when we analise with cold hearts that, they both, mclaren and hamilton, escaped from penalties this season, hamilton mainly, he did everything in the track, including those ashaming brake tests in Japanes GP, and no further actions were taken

Alonso, on the other hand, was punished last season in Hungarian GP for applying a brake test on a Free Practice ! And caused no incident, while hailton brake tests caused that incident involving Vettel and Webber

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Huh? Did you actually watch the same F1 Championship?

1. McLaren got caught with Ferrari data and got fined. The FIA inspected the McLaren and found NO Ferrari parts or tech.
2. Kimi won because Ferrari moved Macca over *cough* Team Orders *cough* Macca was clearly faster
3. If the roles were reversed do you not think that Ferrari would have also questioned the result? Think of all the times Ferrari have protested when someone else won...
4. Alonso got his arse handed to him by a rookie. He gave evidence against his employor only because McLaren refused to give him #1 status, otherwise he was happy with the "arrangement" of Ferrari data
5. I am actually happy that Lewis didn't win. Not because I dislike him, I actually think he is a real talent, but because it would have been tainted with all the other crap.

F1 is a business first, sport second. It's a good business decision for Ferrari to win the WC. They are a recognized name, McLaren are not for the most part.

So congrats to Kimi and Ferrari. Celebrate now, cause next year there will be a 3 way fight between you, McLaren and BMW. Who will you blame then when things go wrong?

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agreed - what a bunch of sore losers...they can't even lose with dignity, much less win with it. lewis hamilton is a joke and a clown - i sincerely hope that this was a fluke year for him and that he only did well becuase the mclaren was dramatically improved thanks to cheating. same goes for alonso. i hope we (renault) don't take his backstabbing, whining ass back. what a team of dirtbag sore losers...unbelievable.

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I think you have a lot of valid points. But then look at the start of Brazil where the Ferraris spread out and then the one in front of Hamilton overbraked for the corner, taking away Hamilton's momentum and shoving him back many spots.

I think FIA greatly favors Ferrari. But I also agree for the most part, this year, FIA's want to get Hamilton a championship in his first year overrode that.

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Check your math. McL would have handily won the WCC this year.

Kimi won the WDC because Kimi was awesome and won 6 races, and both Hamilton and Alonso choked at critical times. Ferrari would have lost the WCC because Massa did not deliver when he had to and the cars were not reliable enough. Fantastic season. The best guy won the WDC, and a star was born. Really the best script. As a F1 fan for many years, a dream come true.

Now, some people want to turn F1 into the Davinci Code. The FIA didnt conspire to win it for Hamilton. Hamilton did. He won four races and finished almost every race on the podium. He beat Alonso, the defending champ, in the same car, fair and square many times. Alonso demolished Fisichella and Trulli, no pay driver hacks, in the same car.

Now people carp about:
1. Nurburgring. LH spins off in the pouring rain, gets back on the track under the rules. He finishes way down the order anyway.
2. Fuji. Vettel admits hes not looking where he's going, runs into his 'teammate,' and its Hamilton's fault. A mysterious fan sends a youtube link to the FIA and investigation is opened at its conspiraicy for Lewis?
3. Hungary. Alonso sits in the pits to get the last run blocking Hamilton and its LH's fault because Alonso was punished, even after Alsonso's number one fan Ron Dennis defends him?
4. Brazil. He blocks Kimi? What did Kimi say about it? Did Kimi loose time. Lets flash back to Alonso "blocking" Massa at Monza last year 300 meters ahead, while were at it? Did we notice that the FIA put an official observer in the pits to make sure FA has the best chance to win. And all this is a conspiracy for LH to win? Seriously, now.

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We shouldn't be cynical, FIA allowed hamilton to do several things that the same FIA disallowed other drivers in the present and in the past

For instance, someone above claimed that hamilton "lost the momentum" in this last weekend race start, after both "cavallinos" took the positon ahead of him. So, what you think about that clamorous start at Italian GP (Monza) when hamilton aligned his car pointed inside, and simply cutting Massa's front, clearly blocking, or, the Safety car incidente, remember, 12 yrs ago, Schumi was penalised with a black flag in (where else could it be?) British GP when he passed Hill during the formation lap for a while

And, we're not even taking into any account the shame of that judgement where mclaren drivers escaped unhurt of the spy issue

though they didn't find any specific F2007 parts into the MP4 22 project, for sure the main advantage was taken in how the tyres were used, hence mclaren used Bridgestone for the last time in '01 season, it might be a completelly different car, but as they knew how a team that uses the tyres for almost 6 years, it's clear that they've learned how to make better use of them in the MP4 22

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