Formula One seems troubled

Re: Formula One seems troubled

On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:32:52 +0100, peter
<scoular@blackhole.do-not-spam.me.uk> wrote:

>ric zito <address@in.sig> writes
>>Hell And High Water <bob.remove.helland@att . net > wrote:
>>
>>> > Anyone remember the season McLaren "won" all but one race? That was
>>> > the true nadir.
>>>
>>> AHHHhhhh the 'Fiddle Brake' days... yeah..
>>
>>
>>Er, no. The fiddle brake was 1997. The year Mark's talking about was
>>1988.
>>>
>That was the brake system approved by the FIA?
>The (visible) system that passed official FIA race scrutineering?
>The one that got banned after Ferrari "had in a word" in Mosley's shell
>like?

> German Grand Prix (1980).
>Ferrari personnel spent the entire night in the Williams garage
>wielding their tape measures and taking photographs of the car.

Source, douchebag? Widely debunked as a scurrilous Team England
fabrication requiring time travel to be possible.

> Todt to Fontana (Jerez 1997)
>"‘By strict order of Ferrari, Villeneuve must be held up if you come
>across him on the track"

Source, douchebag?

> Michael Schumacher, (Ferrari 2001):
>"We came that close to the optimum in terms of engine management
>that there wasn't much difference to real traction control"

So what?

> Ferrari (Australian GP 2007)
>Win the first race of the season with an illegal flexi-floor.

Hardly: A McLaren design said to have been derived from stolen
Ferrari information was deemed illegal.

> Nigel Stepney (2007)
>"Do you think (chief designer) Nicolas Tombazis came to Ferrari
>from Mclaren without something in his mind? The new Ferrari front
>and aero came from McLaren.

Hahaha! "You can't send me to prison for killing my parents, m'lud:
I'm an orphan!"

Keep fishing, craphound.


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