Comments on: McLaren blameless, Alonso a snitch, Hamilton perfect and Ferrari devious… NOT. http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/ News, Opinions, Rants and more. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: gostana http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2599 gostana Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:47:29 +0000 http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2599 that was a good one.. Liked the McCheats:) They coudn't ban the drivers coz they assured the drivers that if they provide the evidence, they won't be punished.. but they could have asked the drivers also to pay some fine especially Alonso & de la Rosa.. and if McLaren were fair, it would have beeen a fight b/w Massa and Kimi this year and who knows may be Nick & BMW might have been ahead of McLaren.... any way looking at the current situation, i hope we can see 'fireworks' between Alonso & Hamilton in rest of the races... Leo, I can't agree with you.. sure, FIA was biased towards Ferrai on occasions.. but not recently.. if you remember Schumi was given a 10 grid penalty for blocking Alonso(i think it was alonso) last year at the same time, Alonso was given only 5 grid penalty for doing the same on Hamilton and that too in a more obvious way.. and from the emails, it is pretty clear that it is not just Mike who had the info.... so I think McLaren was lucky that they were not banned for a few years.... Gostana that was a good one.. Liked the McCheats:)
They coudn’t ban the drivers coz they assured the drivers that if they provide the evidence, they won’t be punished.. but they could have asked the drivers also to pay some fine especially Alonso & de la Rosa..

and if McLaren were fair, it would have beeen a fight b/w Massa and Kimi this year and who knows may be Nick & BMW might have been ahead of McLaren….

any way looking at the current situation, i hope we can see ‘fireworks’ between Alonso & Hamilton in rest of the races…

Leo, I can’t agree with you.. sure, FIA was biased towards Ferrai on occasions.. but not recently.. if you remember Schumi was given a 10 grid penalty for blocking Alonso(i think it was alonso) last year at the same time, Alonso was given only 5 grid penalty for doing the same on Hamilton and that too in a more obvious way..

and from the emails, it is pretty clear that it is not just Mike who had the info…. so I think McLaren was lucky that they were not banned for a few years….

Gostana

]]> By: leo http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2557 leo Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:07:37 +0000 http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2557 Completely disagree with the views expressed here in this article. So one is expected to completely ignore FIA's age-old and "time-tested" bias toward Ferrari? And is it Mc Laren's fault that one of their employees had information abt Ferrari? You can't blame the whole team for something one of their employee does! Also, importantly the information was in no way put to use. Completely disagree with the views expressed here in this article. So one is expected to completely ignore FIA’s age-old and “time-tested” bias toward Ferrari? And is it Mc Laren’s fault that one of their employees had information abt Ferrari? You can’t blame the whole team for something one of their employee does! Also, importantly the information was in no way put to use.

]]> By: jinisha http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2541 jinisha Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:58:45 +0000 http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2541 @ above i agree with you. just because it mclaren they will be let off so easily..and still they are crying foul over FIA favouring Ferrari..ferrari seem to be the underdogs to me...FIA has done enogh in the past to make life difficult for ferrari..i think the Mclaren drivers should also be penalised..if mclaren drivers win the WDC it wud be a realy sad day for F1 where people win by using all the wrong means. @ above
i agree with you. just because it mclaren they will be let off so easily..and still they are crying foul over FIA favouring Ferrari..ferrari seem to be the underdogs to me…FIA has done enogh in the past to make life difficult for ferrari..i think the Mclaren drivers should also be penalised..if mclaren drivers win the WDC it wud be a realy sad day for F1 where people win by using all the wrong means.

]]> By: Mihir Saxena http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2527 Mihir Saxena Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:35:39 +0000 http://www.sportsnob.net/2007/09/14/spy-vs-spy-an-opinion/#comment-2527 Finally a view point i have read on the web which is genuine. All others seem to be crying as if it was Ferrari who cheated again and lay the blame on Mclaren. I agree that if it was any other team caught cheating, they would have been thrown out for 2 years. Another interesting thing is, the evidence which turned the case this time around was emails floating around between drivers, and if McLaren used the Ferrari technical data, how can the drivers had NOT benefited from it ? The drivers should have been thrown out for atleast a yr as well, especially de la Rosa and Alonso. Finally a view point i have read on the web which is genuine. All others seem to be crying as if it was Ferrari who cheated again and lay the blame on Mclaren. I agree that if it was any other team caught cheating, they would have been thrown out for 2 years. Another interesting thing is, the evidence which turned the case this time around was emails floating around between drivers, and if McLaren used the Ferrari technical data, how can the drivers had NOT benefited from it ? The drivers should have been thrown out for atleast a yr as well, especially de la Rosa and Alonso.

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