F1: (spoiler)

Bent, bent, bent.

Fucking Ferrari cheating again. What's the point?

 

I don't see the problem. Ferrari spend millions on the team and if
they want to decide which one of their drivers wins then they should
be allowed to.

I feel sorry for the driver asked to move over but if he's been told
he's number 2 and still takes the money rather than walking out in
disgust then it's his choice.

 

You may dislike it, but the rules of the sport have banned 'team orders'
- mostly because Ferrari are no strangers to really obvious manipulation
of results in the past.

Personally, 'team orders' have always been part of the sport, so it was
madness to ban them - especially if the penalty for enforcing team
orders is a little slap on the wrist in the form of a USD100k fine and
no points penalty.

 

A harsher penalty would piss off Ferrari, and that would be 'bad'


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As it ever was ...

 

It's not the cheating, it's the ineptness of the cheating.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick

"Should be" maybe, but they're not. If they don't want to play by the
rules, why not just fit a bigger more powerful engine?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Salad Dodger

I suspect Rob Smedley may be job-hunting quite soon.

 

If they were expecting a satellite team to move out of their way then
I'd be amongst the first to condemn them but how have cheated anyone
bar one of their own drivers? Anyone paying to watch F1 knows that
team orders exist no matter what anyone believes so just accept it and
move on.

Would you think it unfair if one of the team took on a blocking role
to prevent opponents from catching his team mate or would you say it
was racing as a team? I know how I'd view it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick

There's a rule that forbids it. Ferrari tramped all over that rule, and
couldn't even be bothered to hide the fact. Both cars should have been
excluded.

I'm not aware of a rule to forbid it, so I'd have no particular
objection.

 

80.000 penalty against all the money that Santa & Der put.

 

I'm going to start charging you royalties. First you stole gibernated...

 

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:58:49 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel

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I suspect that you really are some kind of a control freak.

 

Quite.

 

But there is. It's linked to the number of times they're allowed to make a
defensive manoeuvre.

 

As an actor?

 

I didn't watch it, and TBH don't care that much for F1, but if I had
paid good money[1] to watch a MotGP race, and Rossi and Lorenzo
decided not to to race wheel to wheel for the last 1/3 of the race,
and just let one of them cruise in front, I'd feel pretty f**king
cheated.

cheers

Markie

[1] and I'd guess F1 is a lot more than Moto GP/ But even so to get
there, ticket, stuff there etc, it ain't cheap.

 

I only steal from the finest places, sir.

 

Isn't the fine something like equivalent to about 3 carbon fibre noses?

 

That sounds quire plausible. It's almost pointless imposing such a fine.
It's like (AFAIAC) the FIA actually approving the breaking of their own
rules.

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