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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: FIA - Ferranti's Intervention Agency? |
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What on earth is going on in FIA.?
Why are McLaren being persecuted over "malpractices" which have been endemic and largely unsanctioned in the sport for years? Is it all down to Max Mosley's well-documented antipathy towards Ron Dennis as a result of previous clashes vis a vis the Grand Prix Manufacturers Association? What about Renault's previous "infringements" against McLaren, which went largely unreported and unsanctioned? Not to mention several others.
If whatever "transference of information" (by a disenchanted Ferrari employee) is deemed to have resulted in improved McLaren performance warranting the docking of Constructors Championship points, then surely the relevant Drivers' Championships points also should have been docked, as they too must have benefited from such "transference of information".
But no, the docking of points in the driver championship would stem the public's recent revitalisation towards F!, and act to the detriment of the sport, and all the sponsors, supporters and hanger's on that are a major part of Formula 1. Political decision or what!!!
Let's face it, this season has been the best in a long series of Ferrari denominated boring encounters, and guess who's trying to upset the applecart? Yeah right! |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: Ooops, sorry Ferrari's Intervention Agency (NOT Ferranti!) |
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I should know better than to post after three glasses of Vino Tinto!!! |
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Barkingbiker
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Well I for one thought it was a most lucid post, left no doubt in my mind what you were saying Minx. Maybe you should watch Moto GP or Superbikes, where pole position is not the be all and end all of racing
BB _________________ Old Bikers Never Die, our leathers just get tighter! |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: Re: FIA - Ferranti's Intervention Agency? |
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Minx wrote: | What on earth is going on in FIA.?
Why are McLaren being persecuted over "malpractices" |
Fined £50 million for spying. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:52 am Post subject: |
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Is the fact that everyone else was doing it a proper defence? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: Re: Ooops, sorry Ferrari's Intervention Agency (NOT Ferranti |
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Minx wrote: | I should know better than to post after three glasses of Vino Tinto!!! |
What were you on & where can I get some! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | Is the fact that everyone else was doing it a proper defence? |
Not really, but it does beg the question why one particular offender should be punished (and so harshly) whilst others have been allowed to get away with it.
Personally I think "parking up" on the Monaco circuit to stop others achieving a better qualifying time, or side-swiping Damon Hill off the track in order to win the World Championship is far worse than "being in possession of information", but then again the perpetrator of both those misdemeanours was employed by Ferrari (or Ferranti as I prefer to call them.) |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: |
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There has ALWAYS been one rule for Ferrari and one rule for everyone else. When other teams have started to catch them up, Ferrari insist on a rule change in order to maintain the gap. This is one of the reasons why I no longer watch F1 (one of the others is that it is on ITV and the race is ruined so that ITV can sell bits of time to advertisers at inflated prices) _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | This is one of the reasons why I no longer watch F1 (one of the others is that it is on ITV and the race is ruined so that ITV can sell bits of time to advertisers at inflated prices) |
The prices can't really be described as "inflated" - ad agencies bid for spots right up to within minutes of each ad break and if they're winning to bid up the price, that's what the spots are worth.
But I hate the ad breaks in F1, too, as it happens. I've never liked ITV's presentation of F1 since the contract moved from the Beeb. |
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