If a Ferrari driver wins the driver's championship that's a good bonus. My priorities go as: Team, Team drivers, Individual drivers. I like Kubica and Sutil's driving styles, but if Kubica is fighting with Alonso (and I already stated I dont like Alonso), I'll still cheer for Alonso and be happy if he wins.
That blog entry has a lot of good points I've been trying to make, except I dont word my points well enough and a ton of people already dislike me here, but it's what I've been trying to say all along:
From MSchumacher:
Unrelated point:
I'm guessing not from FIA, but sponsors and other interests are at stake, such as merchandise sales, and if you want, pride?
That blog entry has a lot of good points I've been trying to make, except I dont word my points well enough and a ton of people already dislike me here, but it's what I've been trying to say all along:
From MSchumacher:
From David Coulthard:"By the end of the year, if you think you would have lost the championship for exactly that point you will ask yourself, all the fans, the television, the journalists, why didn't you do so?
"If you go back to other years, other teams and other situations, in the last race there were clear team orders and everybody accepts those. Whether it's the last race, second last race or even earlier, what's the point?
From the Blogger:"Every team in this pit lane gives team orders and anyone who says they don't is lying."
F1 is a team sport; teams constantly manipulate races. Having a rule banning team orders doesn't mean they don't happen, it simply means teams have to find duplicitous ways of employing them.
Equally, I don't see the logic of an argument that says Ferrari should be penalised for this incident but teams and drivers should not have been punished for similar situations in the past.
The most obvious recent one that springs to mind decided the result of the world championship in 2007.
In the final race of the season in Brazil, Massa was leading then-Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, with Alonso - then at McLaren - in third place and the Spaniard's team-mate Hamilton fighting his way back up the field, eventually finishing fifth.
Had Massa won, Hamilton would have been world champion - but Massa, clearly under instruction from Ferrari, gave up a victory in his home race so his team-mate could win the title.
No one complained then. So why now?
Unrelated point:
I can't see why nobody talks of contractors' championship vs drivers'. Each team has championship to complete in and it's called Constructors championship.
Driver's championship should just be decided between drivers. Why do teams try to influence that so much? even go against the rules?
Do they get paid more $ from FIA if their drivers place higher?
I'm guessing not from FIA, but sponsors and other interests are at stake, such as merchandise sales, and if you want, pride?
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