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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.