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The McLaren F1 fiasco

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No doubt this is going to get more responses relating to the point of 'driving cars around in circles' than those relating to the thread title, but nonetheless....

Just wondered what the views of fellow petrol heads here are on the weekend's events at Macca? Personally I dont know what to make of it, as soon as I form an opinion, another set of 'facts' spring to mind. Whatever Hamilton may or may not have done, you have to admire him for not being intimidated by Alonso and a (supposedly) enraged Ron Dennis..

And it sounds like Alonso is desperate to get out and go to the first French/Italian team that he used to drive for, run by a fat old man who likes to shag supermodels (and why not?) that will have him!

EDIT: Just realised APK has started a similar thread on this, so i'll stick me two pennorth's worth on there

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Just imagine for a second how the two sides, and the FIA, would be acting if it was Ferrari that was found in possession of McLaren drawings.

McLaren have been consistently the biggest cheats in the game, and always adopt this holier than though attitude.

Fuck them.

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BIGINOIL wrote: Just imagine for a second how the two sides, and the FIA, would be acting if it was Ferrari that was found in possession of McLaren drawings.

McLaren have been consistently the biggest cheats in the game, and always adopt this holier than though attitude.

Fuck them.

Dunno, there have been plenty of instances where the FIA has been thought to have been helping Ferrari as well. Especially in the late 90's when Ferrari were trying to win the first title since '79.

Personally I think that if Ferrari are so desperate to see McLaren punished for what their employee did out of work (as far as we know) then great, but hand the same punishment to Ferrari for their employee's role in the same incident. Bet that would shut them up

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Well what about the two do-wrongers (Coughlin of Mclaren and Stepney of Ferrari) being interviewed together by Honda just before the scandal broke out? Wonder if that adds another link to the whole thing....is Honda possibly involved? They have been negotiating about joining the McLaren team....:shrug:

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F1 - whats the point??

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Do I doubt that Ron is a cheating bastard? Nope! However, I genuinely think stealing would be below him.

The FIA seem incapable of balance.....

in 1998/99 McRon got away with EVERYTHING....remember Hakinen's pole at monaco set under waved yellow....which he was allowed to keeo because he raised his hand to acknowledge the marshals....so he drove past the incident faster than before...ONE HANDED! Ferrari at the time got stiched for everything....like being accused of having traction control when all they had was a switch to turn 6 cylinders off.

Fast forward a few years and Ferrari, on demand, can get the FIA to "interperet"..."tyres must be no wider than 270mm when new" as "tyres must be less than 270mm wide when used", and derail Williams right there.

I dislike that toad person a great deal too.

It seems apparent that this whole thing is a smokescreen to cover Ferrari's illegal car.

The amusing thing at the minute is that traditionally, appealing to the FIA gets your sentence increased, so on one hand, Ron's a dead man for appealing the points ban, and so is Toad for questioning their judgment about Ron.

As for what happened in the pitlane.....downright sneainess on the part of Alonso......hehehehe, fair play for thinking of it and fair play for Hamilton freaking him out enough to cause him to do it.

I can see it in the stewards office now.... "ferdie, you're a bastard!" at which point Ron would pipe up and come out with some PR crap about it being a team decision.....and the stewards saying..."really Mr Dennis, well then, you;ll be getting fuck all points then". :lol:

It's a load of piss that we have all this happening in a year where there is a genuine on track battle for the W/C'ships, instead of the usual Ferrari scripted bullshit.

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EdelBrock wrote: Well what about the two do-wrongers (Coughlin of Mclaren and Stepney of Ferrari) being interviewed together by Honda just before the scandal broke out? Wonder if that adds another link to the whole thing....is Honda possibly involved? They have been negotiating about joining the McLaren team....:shrug:

I thought that for a while, but apparently Honda were exonerated.

Mind you, given Honda's current form, they need all the help they can get

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Or they could consider concentrating on getting around the track and forget about all the bad sportsmanship and moaning.

Did anyone see Dario Franchitti crash today?

F***, that's a lucky man!

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Was that today? My mate just sent me a link on Youtube, but i hadnt checked it out properly!

Yeah when the yanks have a crash, they tend to do it big. Sadly have a much higher injury/death rate too

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Edd wrote:

EdelBrock wrote: Well what about the two do-wrongers (Coughlin of Mclaren and Stepney of Ferrari) being interviewed together by Honda just before the scandal broke out? Wonder if that adds another link to the whole thing....is Honda possibly involved? They have been negotiating about joining the McLaren team....:shrug:

I thought that for a while, but apparently Honda were exonerated.

Mind you, given Honda's current form, they need all the help they can get

Honda F1:rofl: Cheers!:thumb:

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BIGINOIL wrote: Or they could consider concentrating on getting around the track and forget about all the bad sportsmanship and moaning.

Did anyone see Dario Franchitti crash today?

F***, that's a lucky man!

Saw that on Channel 5 as well, Dario's a very lucky fella indeed considering it looked a million times worse than Alex Zanardi's smash. Cheers!:thumb:

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