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“Max? When we banned Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds from Formula One…we did check that we were allowed to, didn’t we? “Um…” They weren’t, as it turns out. A French court ruled yesterday that the FIA have no power at all to ban Briatore and Symonds for their roles in the Crashgate scandal. There’s no provision for [...] That punishment, for those who haven’t seen it, is a permanent disqualification from the Formula One world championship, suspended until the end of the 2011 season. The disqualification will be enforced if, and only if, Renault commit another offence of comparable severity before then. When you consider that the FIA called this race-fixing offence ‘of [...] 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, [...] If it’s true that McLaren’s boss is attending the World Motor Sport Council meeting alone tomorrow, it’ll be an unusual end to an especially peculiar charm offensive. Racing teams don’t do humility. They do ignorance, they do innocence, they do guilt under mitigating circumstances. They don’t hold their hands up, say they were wrong and take [...] |
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