The McLaren thing just keeps on rolling?
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skeggysteve said:
Derek Smith said:
What is certain is that it will be completely above board with no tricks or hidden agendas. One can have faith in the veracity of everything that the FIA does.
And which smiley did you leave of the end of your post?
or this:
or this:
or this:
but most likely this:
rubystone said:
nowt said:
It must be worrying times at McLaren. A ban for 2007 and 2008 is not good news at all.
You may find if the ban is brought in, that Prodrive enter F1 with a very good car indeed.
.....with at least one superstar driver too....You may find if the ban is brought in, that Prodrive enter F1 with a very good car indeed.
surely some rule against it though?
nowt said:
It must be worrying times at McLaren. A ban for 2007 and 2008 is not good news at all.
You may find if the ban is brought in, that Prodrive enter F1 with a very good car indeed.
This won't happen; Bernie won't let this get in the way of good business. It may well mean some overly costly penalty levied with dubious justification on McLaren and, it may well serve to assist Ferrari's campaign this year (if the recent past is anything to go by)...but McLaren will still be racing. You may find if the ban is brought in, that Prodrive enter F1 with a very good car indeed.
Also, and I don't know the details of the concorde agreement, but working on the basis that the teams benefit from a share of the TV revenues + that TV audiences around the world probably mirror the rises that ITV have experienced = presumably the TV rights will be increasing in value (depending on the terms of the various contracts).
In which case it could arguably be to Ferrari's financial detriment to have McLaren excluded from future championships, but I'm just speculating...and prepared to be shot down for it
Stuismyname said:
In which case it could arguably be to Ferrari's financial detriment to have McLaren excluded from future championships, but I'm just speculating...and prepared to be shot down for it
Certainly will. Under the terms of the Concorde, McLaren, along with the other teams, are required to pay Ferrari hard cash from their own pocket for the privilege of their being part of the grid. Stoddart let this slip some years ago - I can't recall the figure though....I personally think that Alonso is more likely to move to Toyota or BMW if he moves at all. In fact, I'd wager money that if he wins the driver's championship this year, he will take Toyota's coin on his terms - number 1 driver etc and attempt to immortalise himself as the man who turned Toyota around.
Perhaps the only other scenario is that Alejandro Agag builds a Spanish F1 team around Alonso from the ashes of Aguri, now that Spyker has an Indian investor.
rubystone said:
Stuismyname said:
In which case it could arguably be to Ferrari's financial detriment to have McLaren excluded from future championships, but I'm just speculating...and prepared to be shot down for it
Certainly will. Under the terms of the Concorde, McLaren, along with the other teams, are required to pay Ferrari hard cash from their own pocket for the privilege of their being part of the grid. Stoddart let this slip some years ago - I can't recall the figure though....I personally think that Alonso is more likely to move to Toyota or BMW if he moves at all. In fact, I'd wager money that if he wins the driver's championship this year, he will take Toyota's coin on his terms - number 1 driver etc and attempt to immortalise himself as the man who turned Toyota around.
Perhaps the only other scenario is that Alejandro Agag builds a Spanish F1 team around Alonso from the ashes of Aguri, now that Spyker has an Indian investor.
davidd said:
According to this article, there was a email exchange between de la Rosa and Alonso, in another article (Spiegel Online, german only, babelfish needed) it was mentioned that this email exchange involved confidential Ferrari setup data. Now if that is more than just a 
rumour this could be very bad for McLaren.edit: link inserted
Edited by nescio on Thursday 6th September 17:42
nescio said:
davidd said:
According to this article, there was a email exchange between de la Rosa and Alonso, in another article (Spiegel Online, german only) it was mentioned that this email excange involved confidential Ferrari setup data. Now if that is more than just a rumour this could be very bad for McLaren.You do wonder why Toyota didn't have the book thrown at them in such a way when secrets were found to have been stolen from Ferrari?
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