Cause it has nothing to do with whether you like Mclaren or Ferrari. And more to do with whether you choose to be oblivious to the fact that the rule as it is makes no sense and that not only Ferrari or Mclaren use team orders, but eberyone does, and they do affect the outcome of races.
THEN WHY KEEP BRINGING UP THE MCLAREN FAN THING?
You're executing a bait and switch. NONE of the arguments posed involving weasel words like "once Jenson and Lewis are involved" have had
anything to do with asserting that the rule makes no sense, they've been constructed on the premise that McLaren telling Button to conserve fuel and Ferrari giving Massa a (thinly) veiled message to let Alonso past are the same thing (which they clearly are not) and that if the former is okay therefore, logically, the latter is too.
And there you go again with the weasel words. Nobody is choosing to be oblivious to anything, the events of Turkey are unrelated to this Topic and the rule, and quite why the FiA accepted Ferrari's ludicrous assertion that they
are somehow related is beyond me. The rule is (or rather was) perfectly well understood, sensical and
entirely necessary. It's Ferrari's preposterous legal defence (We didn't do it, except we did, but so did everyone else, except they didn't, so it's okay) that has muddied the waters. Now, fair enough, re-write the rule to make it clearer, closing the loophole Ferrari and the FiA (imagine that they) have discovered. But don't sit there and suggest that people are unreasonable for disagreeing with Ferrari, who are convicted cheaters, and the FiA, an organisation so inconsistent it's practically schizophrenic.
This entire Turkey argument predicates itself on the fallacious assertions that:
1 All communications with the drivers constitute team orders
- This is despite the fact that what "team orders" refers to, an instruction to allow a teammate to finish ahead, is well-established
2 Button did not need to save fuel
- Something we have no evidence for, and plenty of (admittedly inconclusive) evidence against. The burden of proof is on the accuser, the one challenging the established facts.
3 The only possible reason for not believing that McLaren were attempting to prevent Button from going into attack mode purely to allow Lewis to win is some inherent bias, and the only reasonable conclusion is that McLaren were manipulating the race result, because Lewis was told not to expect JB to pass
- This despite the fact that it there is nothing unreasonable about seeing that the McLarens had been going virtually flatout for most of the race to keep up with the Red Bulls, and Jenson could easily genuinely have needed to save fuel (As seems likely considering he was told after his opportunistic pass - he's a
racing driver - that the fuel situation was "now critical"). If you can prove he had enough fuel to keep the engine turned up, by all means, let's see it.
The Frome Flyer: Smoother, Smarter, Calmer,
Winner.
Jenson Button: Professor, Chauffeur, World Champion Racing Driver.
