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So Ferrari showed what they up to do on such fast tracks like Istanbuk! GREAT!! Now Monza and Spa could be another 1-2 for us
babyman said:So Ferrari showed what they up to do on such fast tracks like Istanbuk! GREAT!! Now Monza and Spa could be another 1-2 for us
COBL_04 said:I hope it rains. No offence but I'm so sick of boring races. If it's sunny then its gonna be either Massa/Daylight/Raikkonen/Daylight or vice versa.
COBL_04 said:I've hated Mr Ecclestone and Mr Walker for some time. It was worse a few years ago when they were sleeping with Mr Todt and whoever the big guy is at Ferrari. Monte something.
Monte Carlo is terrible. But they don't care about the fans. The fans want races like two ago: when it pissed rain, seven cars went off track, a Spyker was leading.
But apparently we'd rather watch a game where the only spots that change are the irrevelant ones.
COBL_04 said:Did any cars relevant to the finish actually overtake each other on the track? Sorry to be all downtrodden, especially given how close the championship is, but I just keep losing interest. V8's all the way
McLaren fined, lose constructors title
TSN.ca Staff
9/13/2007 1:44:38 PM
McLaren have been banned from winning the 2007 Formula One constructors championship following a hearing before the World Motor Sport Council in Paris.
The team have been fined a record $100-million US and will have to present their 2008 car for inspection before the governing body prior to racing it next season.
However, both Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso were not penalized and will be able to continue fighting for the drivers championship this weekend in Belgium.
The ruling effectively hands Ferrari this year's constructors championship.
Asked if justice had been served, FIA president Max Mosley replied succinctly, "Yes".
Hamilton was among the members of the McLaren team who appeared before the council on Thursday, however, he reportedly was not asked to testify at the hearing. He left the meeting roughly three hours after it started, presumeably to get back to Belgium to begin preparations for this weekend's race.
Teammate Alonso was noticeably absent from the hearing, electing instead to attend a previously announced pre-race press conference in Belgium, where he was peppered with questions about the spy scandal.
"I am 100 percent concentrated in this paddock, in this track and winning this race," said Alonso, who refused to speculate about the outcome. "Other than that I will not have two seconds of thinking."
When asked why he didn't travel to Paris, as Hamilton did, the Spaniard replied: "No comment."
Former Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn was in attendance for the Scuderia even though he is no longer a member of the team and is currently on a one year sabbatical.
Also present at the hearing as observers were representatives of Williams, Renault, Spyker and Red Bull.
Prior to today's verdict, a poll conducted on TSN.ca revealed 33-percent believed McLaren would be stripped of its constructors points. A combined 29-percent said McLaren would be thrown out of the 2007 and 2008 championship while 23-percent said they woudl only be fined. Only 15-percent said they would escape without any punishment.
Ferrari got many times penalties, MonteCarlo, Hungary last year, or the Schumacher-Villeneuve trouble in Jerez in 1997
Slipstream said:
McLaren got it's hand caught in the cookie jar, and let's not forget, a Ferrari employee was the one who opened it.