The "lying" affair at McLaren has been here for lack of time is not yet fully appreciated. I'm going to get a look.
McLaren and the FIA - is it at the moment no longer love affair. Only the espionage affair, then the trouble last year at Spa. Added to this is that Hamilton is one of those drivers who often have little overheated on the way. Hardly a pilot last year was more often if the commissioners, as the Briton. Now ask the FIA to the British racing team again to repeat, to explain the thing with the exact lie of Australia. And again, McLaren will stand pretty bad, especially because it has the same lie twice. Once, when they brought the protest, a second time, as it existed at a hearing on their own perspective. May even be that the FIA takes drastic steps.
That is a lie in sports, is now also nothing new. Would be remembered in football every liar with a red card, the place would probably be pretty quick very empty. Also in Motor Sport is a lie like hell, should be caught but you can not stop. The more than amateurish attempt by McLaren to push Trulli of third place is so enlightened now. One should not just say that a common enemy has become obsolete under yellow, if you have instructed his driver over the radio, those same opponents prefer to leave over. The McLaren so ever, sorry, was stupid, is even more astonishing. After all, we all know that the FIA record all radio traffic.
Overall, this would be relatively small lie, not a broken leg. With any other team, the subsequent disqualification would have been sufficient. Perhaps even garnished with a small fine. At McLaren, the situation would otherwise, because it takes the team Mosley krum probably always have, that you lied to the FIA at the first hearing on the espionage affair in July 2007, simply, as the team management claimed that they knew nothing about it.
The result now means that you probably want those little luxuries in more detail take a closer look. Not to deter imitators (so what does any good anyway after voluntarily) but McLaren has yet to take time to chest. They are aware of their plight very well aware. Otherwise I can not explain the covered entertainment on the theme "diffuser" is not well. Norbert Haug said in an interview that they would not join because a) a customer team is affected and b) would just have other concerns about your own investment objectives. That may be true, but it will also not be happy if both a Williams drive around in their face. Obviously, there is at McLaren-Mercedes, that you want to keep the ball low (must be), so long as the Australia-matter is not resolved.
The possible penalty catalog of the FIA in this matter is unclear. It ranges from a race for an exclusion, or more races, up to a gentle admonition. Observers expect, however, with a hefty fine and the fact that the team until the end of the year "probation" goes. Poor Hamilton. Meanwhile, McLaren has suspended David Ryan, who was responsible for the matter, and everything should have done on their own director, released officially. A pawn sacrifice? Hard to imagine that in a team with Ron Dennis to the snail ever makes employees as it accrues without a tie, anything goes, without the consent of the Board. On the other side: such a neat action which I dare not even now.
Meanwhile, seeps through the diffuser front that the FIA probably never dream of thinking, rather than admit the protest. In the MSA last week (only in the timber output) Norbert Ockenga has stated quite clearly why the protest is futile. In addition, the remarkable protest from Williams in Australia was not so strange. It may well prove conclusively that the boards of some teams Bardge constitute a violation of the regulations. Williams never had to go through before the protest, and wanted to make clear that if you do, then we do it dignity but probably relate to the half field. At the same time it was revealed that almost all were aware of the possibility of a double diffuser, they did not use. Supposedly, only Renault and Red Bull last year, according to the FIA asked and received a negative reply. Why Briatore and Horner are also very acidic.
Max Mosley, meanwhile, has in one of his witty interviews publicly announced that he has huge fun in the new season. For one, he looks great in the case BrawnGP not think it is only the diffuser, which makes the car so quickly, on the other hand, he announced that he had no idea what the verdict will turn out. As if the FIA running anything without his knowledge. There will probably even have to laugh Briatore.
LMS
Nix saw the race, but the LMS provides me kindly with beautiful pictures.
Actually, you should be because of the same thing so punished more than once. So the story would be settled in Melbourne with the disqualification. Angessem I would still maintaining a lock on a race for the team.
McLaren has damaged only itself but by the lies affair. Who so amateurish in as a "screened" sports behaves, which is simply not wipe clean. But I do not think a Martin Whitmarh thinks so miserable and would not be surprised if Ryan is the so-instigated.
Nice picture of the LMS F1 McLaren, D
McLaren is also likely why not join the diffuser protest because they want to avoid a PR disaster. The success of the diffuser teams (not only, but even these) are obviously generally welcomed and approved, and it also does not seem to have agreed spectators, sponsors and press, or a problem with the type of rule interpretation. Quite the contrary. And when protest then the very successful team in recent years now against the former backbenchers, they see very quickly how envious of the other teams a halt to legal because they want it sports not get baked, and that can be McLaren not to the other scandals also really . afford Image is important in F1, not for nothing that one in Stuttgart somewhat angry about the way in which McLaren has presented. (I do not think that Mercedes gets out so right at the end of the year, as has sometimes been rumored, but happy with the situation is certainly not one.)
Like many executives in Stuttgart, currently already well ask, why you stick to a three-figure sum this mess Force in England, while the customer enters team without a star on the car and the overall victory in the series.
There's Annual General Meeting of Daimler in Berlin today, the question is not only the board members. The association "critical shareholders" has called for the withdrawal anyway.