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Rafa @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:19PM
What a shame, they can´t even loose in a honourable manner.
Opposite Lock @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:26PM
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?
bill @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:48PM
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.
Ivan @ Oct 22nd 2007 3:40PM
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.
Eduardo @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:40PM
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