Ok as a former Ferrari fan (before the shenanigans began), I feel compelled to do a Ferrari bullying/complaining/bringing the sport into disrepute/getting other teams penalised timeline.
2001- After reaching the pinnacle of F1, Ferrari begin to take the piss out of their opponents with the last lap position change to allow Schumacher to take 2nd in Austria.
2002- Of course there was the Austria debacle again despite Rubens dominating. But enough has been said about this already.
2003- Unsurprisingly failing to inform the Michelin teams of track surface changes at Monza which they probably specified too. When falling back rapidly in the title race they suddenly decide to protest the Michelin tyres, which ruins the chances of Raikkonen, Montoya, and Ralf Schumacher to win the championship.
2004- They crush the opposition before them but yet again soil the sport's image with an embarrasingly bad attempt at a dead heat at Indianapolis.
2005- Uncompetitive in the title race but didn't show much symapthy for the sport's image in the 6-car US GP. However this is the only one i can sort of understand.
2006- Whilst they are competitive agin they try to sabotage Renault's title challenge by getting a perfectly legal part banned (mass damper). Since then the Renault has not been the same. Also the ridiculous blocking penalty at Monza which Alonso received for allegedly blocking Massa despite the fact that he was probably 200 metres in front of the Brazilian whilst busting his backside to challenge for pole with a damaged car!
2007- Spygate should have been an internal Ferrari matter but I won't place blame with them on this one.
2008 has yet again showed that whenever they are challenged for the championship they resort to running to the Ferrari biased FIA whenever they feel agrieved. Belgium is the obvious example but possibly France as well. Luca di Montezemolo's whining about Singapore just proves my point. If they'd have walked away with a one-two as it was looking he'd have said it was the most fabulous race weeken in living memory! However this is just a case of sour grapes for failing to take home a single point on a track surface which they virtually layed down, due to a basic driving error and a bungled pit stop.
Changing teams is a no no. It is like changing football sides. You simply don't do that if you are a true fan of the sport. Shame of you for now being a former Ferrari Fan. You look at all these negative points about Ferrari. Strange they are all from the year 2000 onwards. The decade Ferrari is most dominate. Would you prefer to have the non winning Ferraris of the 1990s then? I would never change teams even if you paid me, no what they did, weather right or wrong.
On paper it may seem like I am a bit of a traitor, but I only started watching F1 in 1996, so it's inevitable that most of my anti-Ferrari moments are post-2000.
I supported Ferrari up until around 2001. Before that their meteoric rise back to the top of Formula One was commendable and exciting, but after that they decided that being at the top wasn't enough, and proceeded to add to their subsequent car advantage by consistently kicking the other teams when they were down, and by shooting down any potential challenges to their dominance by way of protests, underhanded tactics and blatant showing off.
This is not the way any team should behave, especially when they are the most widely supported team, AND the one that everyone inside and outside the sport recognises and is supposed to respect. Over the last 7 years i have lost virtually all my respect for Scuderia Ferrari.
By the way I thing you have some serious issues if you can tolerate the wrong actions of a team you support and still stick with them. Especially if they are against the traditions and/or rules of the sport in question.
Ferrari are one of the reasons I enjoyed Sebastian Vettel's victory at Monza so much. Ferrari, McLaren and the rest were shown up by a car run by the majority of the Minardi team, a genuine Italian team who have now proved that if they had received the financial backing of the top teams all those years ago, they too could have been winning Grands Prix.
The victory for Toro Rosso could be the best thing I've ever seen in F1, and one of the reasons my faith in F1 is now fully restored.
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Stunning driver too!
I think if he had had better management, or had listened to what he had...he would be a real contender now...instead of an also ran...in nascar.
