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The FIA is taking it too far.
i saw the video of that interview, there was definitely something fishy about it. He seemed to desperately want to apologise but didn't want to overdo it because the official line was that it was all Dave Ryan's fault.
This seems incredibly out of order. Feels like he's a scapegoat
He is a scapegoat without a doubt!
Ryan has been involved in motorsport since he was young lad in New Zealand and has worked for McLaren since 1974. He has no previous offences to his name. Moreover, his actions seem to have been spur of the moment and trying to preserve McLaren's fairly-won third place. Ryan should not have lied, yes, but we need to get a sense of perspective.
I don't disagree with you that Ryan should be punished in some way, either by the FIA, McLaren or both, which is something that looks to be happening.
I am not a liar. I am not a dishonest person.
Lewis didn't actualy lie apparently
He was asked did you willing let trulli though.
and he said no.
the telemetry shows he didn't slow down and trulli said he drove along side him and passed him.
He's just not gone on to say "but the team did order me to do so"
to be fair you have to say if you were in a meeting with your boss and your boss said were going to do this to you before the meeting.
And then when on to say somthing that wasn't stricly true you wouldn't condratict him would you?
Lewis didn't actualy lie apparently
He was asked did you willing let trulli though.
and he said no.
the telemetry shows he didn't slow down and trulli said he drove along side him and passed him.
He's just not gone on to say "but the team did order me to do so"
to be fair you have to say if you were in a meeting with your boss and your boss said were going to do this to you before the meeting.
And then when on to say somthing that wasn't stricly true you wouldn't condratict him would you?
But the footage shows that he did slow down.
Lewis didn't actualy lie apparently
He was asked did you willing let trulli though.
and he said no.
the telemetry shows he didn't slow down and trulli said he drove along side him and passed him.
He's just not gone on to say "but the team did order me to do so"
to be fair you have to say if you were in a meeting with your boss and your boss said were going to do this to you before the meeting.
And then when on to say somthing that wasn't stricly true you wouldn't condratict him would you?
But the footage shows that he did slow down.
the telemetry says otherwise i've read.
Trulli was wrong to over take him, Lewis was wrong to hold back infomation but he did not lie.
The punishment is very harsh still imo
Lewis didn't actualy lie apparently
He was asked did you willing let trulli though.
and he said no.
the telemetry shows he didn't slow down and trulli said he drove along side him and passed him.
He's just not gone on to say "but the team did order me to do so"
to be fair you have to say if you were in a meeting with your boss and your boss said were going to do this to you before the meeting.
And then when on to say somthing that wasn't stricly true you wouldn't condratict him would you?
But the footage shows that he did slow down.
the telemetry says otherwise i've read.
Trulli was wrong to over take him, Lewis was wrong to hold back infomation but he did not lie.
The punishment is very harsh still imo
Are you saying that the footage is somehow incorrect?
Furthermore, they didn't use telemetry, but compared lap times to ascertain whether or not Lewis slowed. Which is a flawed method, especially when you consider that Trulli slowed down three times to yield the position. Given the circumstances, Trulli was not wrong to pass Lewis. Watching the footage, you'll see how suddenly Lewis slows down and pulls over. In the same way as you would if you lost drive.
But according to McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh, Hamilton did not slow down and offered no encouragement for Trulli to overtake: "Lewis didn't stop, and the telemetry data which was shown to the stewards today showed that the lap on which he was overtaken was no different from the succeeding lap that was under the safety car. It was difficult conditions but there was no evidence from the data that Lewis did anything that induced Trulli to go past.
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