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Right, I’ve had enough………
Mika Salo has stated that throughout his time with Ferrari they routinely spied on Mclaren. Couple this to the fact that they regularly manufactured the outcome of races. Then the fact that Schumacher was a rampant cheater himself. (something I never understoood as he had the talent to avoid such extremes)
Is it just me, or does it sound like Ferrari are desperate to win back some public support after failing to win the constructors title for the last two years and only managing a reletively lacklustre start to this season.
The whole situation stinks of hypocrisy and corruption.
I still wouldn’t put it past Ferrari to have engineered the whole affair to secure an easy title.
Firefox, ok, maybe lacklustre was a bit strong, but I am annoyed by all of this and they’re not where they expected to be in the championship that’s for sure.
To be fair, I’m not making any defence for Mclaren as I don’t support them as a team, I just think it’s pathetic the way Ferrari think it’s acceptable to break the rules and be totally unsporting for their own advantage yet make such a big fuss over this.
I expect, as a loyal tifosi, that you think Ferrari can do no wrong, which is fine but it still amounts to blatant hypocrisy.
As for Salo changing his story, I would imagine he’d have been threatened with legal action by now and doesn’t have much option but to change his story.
More to the point, this isn’t about counter tar tactics at all. Except from Ferrari’s point of view in my opinion.
Ferrari have rarely played by the rules and seem to me as though they are trying to deflect attention away from themselves with this.
I do agree that it’s all a complete farce and bad for the sport but it’s still a bit much that Ferrari can claim to be whiter than white.
Sure, it’s 2007 and Ferrari have also broken the rules in 2007.
Besides, the point is not to say it’s fine for Mclaren to cheat just because Ferrari have in the past, it’s about asking wheather Ferrari have more to do with this whole affair than people realise. The past was mentioned to highlight the fact that they’re not opposed to underhand tactics and therefore would resort to it again to get what they want.
Again, apologies for the lacklustre thing. They did start very well indeed. That was just a knee jerk reaction to my anger at the whole messy affair.
That’s another thing that bothers me about it.
You say Ferrari cheat but aren’t dumb enough to be caught, so with respect, it sounds like you’re condoning this kind of behaviour as a whole.
The second thing is that it was one person, not Mclaren as a whole who got caught. Mclaren only became implicated after they suspended Caughlan to investigate him themselves.
The third point, if he’s as clever a bloke as he appears/appeared, why in the blue hell did he send his wife to a photocopy shop with such sensitive information?
This, to me anyway, is why I think there is something more sinister going on.
Right, I’ve had enough………
Mika Salo has stated that throughout his time with Ferrari they routinely spied on Mclaren. Couple this to the fact that they regularly manufactured the outcome of races. Then the fact that Schumacher was a rampant cheater himself. (something I never understoood as he had the talent to avoid such extremes)
Is it just me, or does it sound like Ferrari are desperate to win back some public support after failing to win the constructors title for the last two years and only managing a reletively lacklustre start to this season.
The whole situation stinks of hypocrisy and corruption.
I still wouldn’t put it past Ferrari to have engineered the whole affair to secure an easy title.
Firefox, ok, maybe lacklustre was a bit strong, but I am annoyed by all of this and they’re not where they expected to be in the championship that’s for sure.
To be fair, I’m not making any defence for Mclaren as I don’t support them as a team, I just think it’s pathetic the way Ferrari think it’s acceptable to break the rules and be totally unsporting for their own advantage yet make such a big fuss over this.
I expect, as a loyal tifosi, that you think Ferrari can do no wrong, which is fine but it still amounts to blatant hypocrisy.
As for Salo changing his story, I would imagine he’d have been threatened with legal action by now and doesn’t have much option but to change his story.
More to the point, this isn’t about counter tar tactics at all. Except from Ferrari’s point of view in my opinion.
Ferrari have rarely played by the rules and seem to me as though they are trying to deflect attention away from themselves with this.
I do agree that it’s all a complete farce and bad for the sport but it’s still a bit much that Ferrari can claim to be whiter than white.
Sure, it’s 2007 and Ferrari have also broken the rules in 2007.
Besides, the point is not to say it’s fine for Mclaren to cheat just because Ferrari have in the past, it’s about asking wheather Ferrari have more to do with this whole affair than people realise. The past was mentioned to highlight the fact that they’re not opposed to underhand tactics and therefore would resort to it again to get what they want.
Again, apologies for the lacklustre thing. They did start very well indeed. That was just a knee jerk reaction to my anger at the whole messy affair.
That’s another thing that bothers me about it.
You say Ferrari cheat but aren’t dumb enough to be caught, so with respect, it sounds like you’re condoning this kind of behaviour as a whole.
The second thing is that it was one person, not Mclaren as a whole who got caught. Mclaren only became implicated after they suspended Caughlan to investigate him themselves.
The third point, if he’s as clever a bloke as he appears/appeared, why in the blue hell did he send his wife to a photocopy shop with such sensitive information?
This, to me anyway, is why I think there is something more sinister going on.
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