http://www.formula1blog.com/2009/11/24/briatore-appeal-paris-today/ Formula 1 Blog Journal of F1 Opinion Formula1blog.com is an online Journal of F1 opinion. The Aristarchus of F1. Auditors of F1 opinion. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.formula1blog.com/2009/11/24/briatore-appeal-paris-today/comment-page-1/#comment-64384 PeterRiva Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:26:28 +0000 http://www.formula1blog.com/?p=10061#comment-64384 Gary Anderson had this right... under the tremendous pressure searching for 1/10 of a second (because of identical car specs imposed by Max)... a Piquet idea suddenly became something that could be done and once it was decided it could be done, it became, if we can we should. The problem with the FIA ruling is that it did not OPENLY punish the wrong doer, did not OPENLY investigate exactly how they pulled this off (was there a voice coded message to Piquet when to crash?), and - in the end - the FIA had no control anyway over Briatore so they sanctioned everyone who touches him. If I was someone working for him, I'd say "Gee thanks FIA, punish me, an innocent bystander." And I'd sue for loss of my livelihood. And as for the track marshals... if they thought, for a micro-second, there was something fishy way back over a year ago, they should have investigated it there and then, not spew loads of "Ah, I thought so" and "It could only have been..." They have every voice recording, all the telemetry, everything needed to do their job. Once again, they failed. By the way, anyone investigating the identical spot crash this year? Pat Symonds is riding the legal coat tails here because he was in on it and he did need an FIA license of some sort. I'm not surprised he's not asking for money back. Gary Anderson had this right… under the tremendous pressure searching for 1/10 of a second (because of identical car specs imposed by Max)… a Piquet idea suddenly became something that could be done and once it was decided it could be done, it became, if we can we should. The problem with the FIA ruling is that it did not OPENLY punish the wrong doer, did not OPENLY investigate exactly how they pulled this off (was there a voice coded message to Piquet when to crash?), and – in the end – the FIA had no control anyway over Briatore so they sanctioned everyone who touches him. If I was someone working for him, I’d say “Gee thanks FIA, punish me, an innocent bystander.” And I’d sue for loss of my livelihood.
And as for the track marshals… if they thought, for a micro-second, there was something fishy way back over a year ago, they should have investigated it there and then, not spew loads of “Ah, I thought so” and “It could only have been…” They have every voice recording, all the telemetry, everything needed to do their job. Once again, they failed. By the way, anyone investigating the identical spot crash this year?
Pat Symonds is riding the legal coat tails here because he was in on it and he did need an FIA license of some sort. I’m not surprised he’s not asking for money back.

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