This is Disgusting

no, it’s not. financially, $1M, or 500K pounds, is chump change to them. more importantly, they knew the appeal was inadmissible before they left spa. they were willing to pay this price in order to take a chance at recovering the lost points, but more so to simply not go down without a fight.

i think they made the right decision to attempt an appeal, and the fia was right to deny it. had the appeal been heard, i hope we can all agree it had some pretty terrible odds of succeeding, and i think that’s right as well. not because i’m a fan of this or that, but because the governing body should not reverse themselves every time there is a close call such as this. does FIFA use instant replay to review every play, constantly overturning the referee’s decisions?

i do hope the sport improves as a result of this, with clearly written rules enforced fairly and consistently by highly trained, regular officials. however, this remains a sport of human participants, and therefore prone to error. that’s fine, too. the last thing f1 needs is to become even more boring.

Ultimately, the championship will (hopefully) be decided on the track with no FIA interference. However, they do have a habit of making sure that a season has a close finish if they can help it, unless there’s a runaway winner. Does anyone remember Irvine being disqualified for illegal barge boards in the penultimate race in 1999 and that was overturned preventing Hakkinen from winning the championship that race? Or the FIA mucking about towards the end of Alonso’s first championship win? As Bernie always says F1 is in the business of entertainment, until that mission statement is revoked and the sport and competition put back on the agenda there’ll always be a slightly dirty taste with every champion. Schumacher was a money man’s dream fast and brilliant but with so maany controversial decisions going his way, it’s hard to feel that there wasn’t some behind the scenes FIA tinkerage to get what they wanted, same with Villeneuve, Hill, hakkinen and Alonso. Too much politics not enough sport.

Also does anyone know why a Ferrari lawyer was allowed to be present to argue against McLaren at their appeal? Are other teams representatives are normally allowed to be present at the hearings? or were there extenuating circumstances allowing this for this particular appeal?

2 incidences that if found guilty have same minimum penalty of a drive through or if near the end of the race 25s added to the times. The only difference was one was a Ferrari the other wasn’t. The rules were changed for Ferrari, creating an exception. So when people say the decision was unfair, they are pointing out that one team receives special privileges.

Take a leaf out of IR, when the checked flag drops that’s the end.

This is Disgusting

Massa for champion, he has best possible “wingman” on whole series! (unless Kimi doesnt do a miracle, again)

I do wonder whats going on with the sport when Ferrari,are aloud to run over there own pit crew and there driver gets to start the next race .

FlA wake up