Re: Ferrari cleared - sort of

[Ralph Moorhouse <ralphmo@domain.elided>]

At 10:38 AM 10/26/1999 +0800, Matthew Killick wrote:
>I'm happy for
>Ferrari to push the limits of legality, but not happy for other teams to be
>labelled un-sporting for calling them.
Joe & Mat
I think if you review the past several years you will find that most of the 
leading F1 teams have been accused of cheating aka pushing the 
interpretation of the rules to the limit & perhaps a little beyond .  This 
also applies to other forms of racing too.

The problem in this particular case is that the rules were found to be 
imprecise and the measurements were take inaccurately.  Hopefully the FIA 
will get their act together.

  If you look back at the reports on the F1 web sites in the day or so 
after the incident, you will note that Newey (McLaren) was acknowledged as 
having spotted the so called infraction at the Euro GP and that McLaren 
chose their moment to reveal their suspicions (unofficially) only when they 
were soundly thrashed by Ferrari.  Sour grapes, un-sporting?  Maybe, but 
why didn't they have the courage of their convictions and file an official 
protest?   Could it be that they saw the ambiguity in the regs & hoped the 
FIA wouldn't & would disqualify  Ferrari with no recourse - hence giving 
McLaren the championship?  No, surely not ;-)  !!

Can't wait 'til Sunday to see Ferrari do it again - thrash McLaren that is!

Ralph
Houston, TX

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