Ok, let's put this behind us...and watch some nice seasonfinal !
Yeah, whatever you say. Yet another championship tainted by the politicians. The FIA have brought shame to themselves, Formula One and its fans for this farcical and corrupt ruling. It's easy for the Tifosi to say this when their championship chances have been seriously boosted and whilst the chances of their rival has been dashed.
How long will Formula One teams allow Ferrari and the FIA to bully them before they decide that enough is enough. McLaren, Williams and Tyrell have challenged Ecclestone and the FIA in recent times and have been punished for doing so. If the teams presented a united front, however, the FIA and Ecclestone would be brought down a peg or two from their grimy towers. At the end of the day, without cars going round a track, they are buggered. The teams could start a series of their own. It may start off slightly smaller than what Formula One is today, but it would soon grow. If anything, it would grow bigger than Formula One, for there would be less political wheelings and dealings tarnishing the sporting value of the racing.
I'm afraid that I cannot agree that 'technically' this was the correct decision. The rules are a little grey in this area - as with so many others - but a precedent was set in last season's Japanese Grand Prix. The FIA tried to falsify evidence to suggest that Liuzzi's penalty was an error when in fact it was not - proof that the FIA realised they were in the wrong. What a disgusting act of perjury! Anybody who has studied political science or legal studies will know that law does not just come from what is written on a piece of legislative paper but that is also made by precedent. And even the most rabid dog on the street knows that the falsification of evidence is a morally-bankrupt abomination.
And what of the roles of Charlie Whiting and Alan Donnelly in all of this? In the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix, he informs Alonso that had to allow Klien to re-pass him. In the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix, he tells Ferrari to change their tyres after they attempted to circumvent the regulations. But in the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix, he tells McLaren that what Hamilton did was within the rules. After this, the FIA suddenly declare that Whiting is not the authorities on theses matters and that McLaren had no business consulting him - completely defying everything that has gone on in the past in Formula One. The stewards are in charge says the FIA. The why was it that Donnelly was doing all the questioning in the "stewards'" inquiry? And it just wouldn't happen to be that Donnelly was appointed by Max Mosley to be his personal representative at Grands Prix. And it just wouldn't happen to be that the companies which Donnelly owns has as its clients the FIA and Ferrari.
It does not take Aristotle to work out what we have seen today, what we have seen before and we will see again in the future from the FIA.
Ayrton Senna: WDC 1988,
1989, 1990, 1991
McLaren: WCC 1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998,
1999, 2007McLaren: WDC 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008
