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simonfa said:
TonyHetherington said:
What puzzles me is that teams walk down the pit lane with cameras all the time. They see a little fin on another car, and go back to the wind tunnel and do a similar fin. It happens all the time!!
So what's the difference between seeing a fin or new spoiler on another car and IP...?! That will be impossible to prove.
Well the major reason would be that if a team see a wing on another teams car then they have to go away reserch it test it in the wind tunnel and develop it themselves, yet when they recieve information be it from a dosier, emails, phone calls that something is a proven time gain then thats different.So what's the difference between seeing a fin or new spoiler on another car and IP...?! That will be impossible to prove.
woof said:
andyps said:
I have only just read this article and MM's comments don't help allay my suspicions. Have I missed something somewhere?
Interesting reading - even if it is on the FIA's on site "Q: Critics argue that the whole affair was a private vendetta between you and Ron Dennis. How is your relationship with him?
MM: Civilized. We phone once in a while. Personally I have no problems with Ron but otherwise there are differing positions. Just to give an example: Ron would like to finish every race with a one-two victory whereas it is my take that every entrant should have equal opportunities. So those two opinions don’t jar. But what goes for Ron also goes for Jean Todt, Frank Williams or Flavio Briatore.
Q: For Luca di Montezemolo as well?
MM: With di Montezemolo it is different. He is chairman of Fiat and President of Italian business lobby Confindustria. My relationship with him is very personal.
Q: So you are intellectually, socially and personally closer to him than to Ron Dennis?
MM: That is probably correct as I know Luca longer and therefore better than Ron. Indeed I’ve known Ron since 1970, but I became really acquainted with him at the end of the eighties, whereas I have known Luca very well since the beginning of the seventies."
Hi, my names Max and I favor my friend in my rulings.
MadMax said:
"Q: Critics argue that the whole affair was a private vendetta between you and Ron Dennis. How is your relationship with him?
MM: Civilized. We phone once in a while. Personally I have no problems with Ron but otherwise there are differing positions. Just to give an example: Ron would like to finish every race with a one-two victory whereas it is my take that every entrant should have equal opportunities. So those two opinions don’t jar. But what goes for Ron also goes for Jean Todt, Frank Williams or Flavio Briatore.
Well i certainly prepare the race cars with the intention of gaining a 1-2 in every race we run two cars in, thats the whole point of motor racing, to be the best and win every time you compete.MM: Civilized. We phone once in a while. Personally I have no problems with Ron but otherwise there are differing positions. Just to give an example: Ron would like to finish every race with a one-two victory whereas it is my take that every entrant should have equal opportunities. So those two opinions don’t jar. But what goes for Ron also goes for Jean Todt, Frank Williams or Flavio Briatore.
Every entrant having equal oportunities still exists with that mindset in place, they all should be thinking that way, Ferrari certainly are. The two are not exclusively viable propositions, in fact thats the whole point behind having an unbiased governing body, to ensure everyone has the same baseline to work from to enable an equal oportunity.
The mans thinking processes are seriously unhinged.
Edited by johnfelstead on Friday 2nd November 11:06
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