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Funny, isn’t it, how as soon as Ron Dennis steps down as McLaren’s big chief, the governing body and its president Max Mosley suddenly start being nice to them? Reading his praise of new boss Martin Whitmarsh , it almost seems as if Max wanted Ron out all along. A fanciful notion, I know. Martin, [...] Sacrificial lamb it is, then. Lewis has played a blinder. “I did it, yes. Dave told me to do it. I’m really, really sorry about it, but Dave told me to do it. I’m not a liar, I’m a team player who did what Dave told me to do. Have I mentioned Dave told me to do the [...] Autosport, from whose site we’ll shortly be due some kind of click-through commission, report that McLaren are embarrassed by the events of Melbourne - you would be, wouldn’t you? – and have suspended sporting director Dave Ryan. Apologies, by the way, for referring to him by his old title of team manager previously; the horsewhip is [...] So, are the FIA right to come down hard on Hamilton and McLaren? Martin Whitmarsh reckons the Australian Grand Prix stewards felt “…the team was not explicit enough in terms of the content of the radio conversations” and “we (McLaren) don’t believe that those radio conversations had a material effect on the fact that he was passed [...] Sometimes, especially when I consider that surely this is not the end of the matter, all I can find it within myself to do is roll my eyes and give up. Four days after the cars crossed the line at the end of the Australian Grand Prix, the results are still changing. Now it’s Lewis Hamilton being given [...] March 17th 2009 – the FIA propose a scoring system in which the driver with the most wins through a season is awarded the world championship in what Bernie Ecclestone calls an attempt to promote ‘real racing.’ March 29th 2009 – Sebastian Vettel is given a 10-place grid drop for the next race after attempting some ‘real racing’ [...] |
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