Posted by ashleigh on
November 8, 2007
The Last sting in the tail?
It seems that the Renault team may be the team to get the sting in the tail of the 2007 season.
The Renault team have been called in front of the FIA, allegedly having breached the Article 151c ruling.
Yes that’s the same article that cost McLaren the constructors title, and 100million dollars in the Stepneygate schenanigens.
So what’s Renault been cheating with? Well it seems that Phil Mackereth moved between McLaren and Renault, and with him went 3 dvd’s of technical details of the McLaren 2007 car (and hence the Ferrari 2007).
It will be interesting to see if the punishment (if there is one) that the Renault teams get is similar or the same as the McLaren one. If not it would almost certainly mean the end of Max Moseley, and probably many others in the upper echelon of the FIA.
Posted by ashleigh on
May 31, 2006
Willi Weber on ‘SchumiGate’
Willi Weber, Michael Schumacher's manager has hi out at the comments from Joaquin Verdegay. He has been reported to have told Bild newspaper, “If you make a mistake and lose control of your car, then of course you brake harder, Everyone who drives a car knows this. This alleged proof is ridiculous. None of the three stewards sat in the car, only Michael.”
He has also said that Joaquin Verdegay should not have even been on the stewards comity, saying “The gentleman is Spanish, like Alonso, It was not a good idea to let him judge. Then you can ask the wolf how Red Riding Hood is.”
Well Willi, it works both ways, Schumi has got away with murder (in F1 terms) driving for Ferrari before now, as the FIA are too afraid to say Boo to the team. It's about time Schumi got told off. Plus there was only one Spaniard on the comity, and the other two members obviously agreed else the penalty would not have been given.
Posted by ashleigh on
May 3, 2006
Aero Cheating
There is a decent writeup over on GrandPrix.com about the current state of the arguments over movable aero parts.
It goes on to explain why the teams think each other are cheating, and how they work it out.
Now we all 'know' that none of the teams are abiding 100% with all the regulations, as if they did they would not be competitive. The issue is however how far the teams are bending the rules, or if some teams are just plain ignoring some of them.
The article is however correct, if F1 gets into a schoolboy name calling fiasco, will it recover?
