ferrarigod
08-04-07, 01:25 AM
The Ferrari team released a statement on Friday angrily refuting allegations that it won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix with an illegal car.
Following McLaren team principal Ron Dennis's open letter to the president of the Italian sporting authority (ACI-CSAI), Luigi Macaluso, on Wednesday – which suggested that the floors used on the Ferraris in Melbourne did not conform with the technical regulations – the Italian team has moved to clraify its position on the matter.
"Ferrari wishes to state very strongly that [Dennis's] letter contains accusations that are both serious and false," read the statement.
"Contrary to the statement put forward by Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, Ferrari never illegally gained any advantage.
"The two F2007 cars used in the Australian Grand Prix were deemed by the Stewards to be in conformity with the technical regulations, before, during and at the end of the event.
"If there had been any illegalities, they would have been disqualified."
According to Dennis's letter, his team received information in March from then-Ferrari employee Nigel Stepney concerning two contentious aspects of the Ferrari F2007: its rear wing separator and a floor attachment mechanism.
As a result McLaren requested a clarification of the rules from the FIA, which subsequently introduced more stringent bodywork deflection tests that forced Ferrari to redesign its floor.
“As far as we are aware, Ferrari ran their cars with this illegal device at the Australian Grand Prix, which they won,” Dennis wrote.
“Ferrari only withdrew the floor device after it was confirmed to be illegal by the FIA."
But Ferrari argues that the FIA did not in fact rule that its car was illegal, but instead simply moved to halt the direction of development on a certain component of the car.
"In fact, what the FIA did next is commonplace," read Ferrari's statement.
"The FIA took the opportunity to issue a clarification on the interpretation of the regulation and then asked the teams concerned to make the necessary modifications.
"There are actually numerous examples of this in both the recent and distant past which have also involved other teams.
"At the next sitting of the FIA International Court of Appeal, Ferrari will fully explain its position on the entire matter."
Ok let me get this straight:
1) McLaren gets illegal information
2)Ferrari Wins in Oz
3) McLaren photocopies documents at a local Kinko's and gets caught
4) McLaren is found to have broken the rules, but is somehow not getting penalized due to the fact that they, 'Did not benefit from Ferrari inside information.'
5) On Wednesday McLaren seeks to steal the race victory at Oz from Ferrari because information they received in stolen documents pointed toward the fact that the car was illegal(although technically it wasn't, cause the rules didn't exist, was just in a gray area not defined, however later clarified by the FIA)
So technically, if I were a thinking human, which Dennis obviously isn't, wouldn't taking victory over Ferrari by complaining from your insider information be construed as an advantage from said stolen information????
Maybe I'm silly, but Ron just admitted to stolen info, and is now using it to try and take the victory.
Sure dumbass, take Ferrari's victory in Oz, but that should then be construed by the FIA as a McLaren advantage by way of stolen information, and then McLaren should be KICKED out of the championship for this year.
This is the most idiotic press release/FIA hearing ever. How you all could call the FIA Fiarrari in the past is beyond me.
Just add this to the Hamilton down 1 lap, grid movements after the restart at the Nurburgring and you have one idiotic situation all against Ferrari.
Following McLaren team principal Ron Dennis's open letter to the president of the Italian sporting authority (ACI-CSAI), Luigi Macaluso, on Wednesday – which suggested that the floors used on the Ferraris in Melbourne did not conform with the technical regulations – the Italian team has moved to clraify its position on the matter.
"Ferrari wishes to state very strongly that [Dennis's] letter contains accusations that are both serious and false," read the statement.
"Contrary to the statement put forward by Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, Ferrari never illegally gained any advantage.
"The two F2007 cars used in the Australian Grand Prix were deemed by the Stewards to be in conformity with the technical regulations, before, during and at the end of the event.
"If there had been any illegalities, they would have been disqualified."
According to Dennis's letter, his team received information in March from then-Ferrari employee Nigel Stepney concerning two contentious aspects of the Ferrari F2007: its rear wing separator and a floor attachment mechanism.
As a result McLaren requested a clarification of the rules from the FIA, which subsequently introduced more stringent bodywork deflection tests that forced Ferrari to redesign its floor.
“As far as we are aware, Ferrari ran their cars with this illegal device at the Australian Grand Prix, which they won,” Dennis wrote.
“Ferrari only withdrew the floor device after it was confirmed to be illegal by the FIA."
But Ferrari argues that the FIA did not in fact rule that its car was illegal, but instead simply moved to halt the direction of development on a certain component of the car.
"In fact, what the FIA did next is commonplace," read Ferrari's statement.
"The FIA took the opportunity to issue a clarification on the interpretation of the regulation and then asked the teams concerned to make the necessary modifications.
"There are actually numerous examples of this in both the recent and distant past which have also involved other teams.
"At the next sitting of the FIA International Court of Appeal, Ferrari will fully explain its position on the entire matter."
Ok let me get this straight:
1) McLaren gets illegal information
2)Ferrari Wins in Oz
3) McLaren photocopies documents at a local Kinko's and gets caught
4) McLaren is found to have broken the rules, but is somehow not getting penalized due to the fact that they, 'Did not benefit from Ferrari inside information.'
5) On Wednesday McLaren seeks to steal the race victory at Oz from Ferrari because information they received in stolen documents pointed toward the fact that the car was illegal(although technically it wasn't, cause the rules didn't exist, was just in a gray area not defined, however later clarified by the FIA)
So technically, if I were a thinking human, which Dennis obviously isn't, wouldn't taking victory over Ferrari by complaining from your insider information be construed as an advantage from said stolen information????
Maybe I'm silly, but Ron just admitted to stolen info, and is now using it to try and take the victory.
Sure dumbass, take Ferrari's victory in Oz, but that should then be construed by the FIA as a McLaren advantage by way of stolen information, and then McLaren should be KICKED out of the championship for this year.
This is the most idiotic press release/FIA hearing ever. How you all could call the FIA Fiarrari in the past is beyond me.
Just add this to the Hamilton down 1 lap, grid movements after the restart at the Nurburgring and you have one idiotic situation all against Ferrari.