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[I]Briatore backtracks on comments

MONZA: Renault team chief Flavio Briatore yesterday backtracked on remarks he made where he said that Formula One was manipulated.

Italian Briatore told Italy's state television company RAI that the drivers' championship race had been already decided

Incubus

FACT - FM absolutely COULD NOT catch FA. Do you think he held back for safety's sake? I don't think that.

matrix

From the European GP, Villeneuve is penalized for not letting a car on a hot lap by but not doing it intentionally....

[I]Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault (13th, 1m 31.197s):

Incubus

[QUOTE=matrix,Sep 12 2006, 02:58 AM] From the European GP, Villeneuve is penalized for not letting a car on a hot lap by but not doing it intentionally....

[I]Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault (13th, 1m 31.197s):

Balzz

So you're actually admitting that Brawn is not credible?

matrix

I don't need video, but feel free to search for it if you want it - physics will do...

If FM was 200m behind FA (I have heard claims of 100m to 300m - so I am simply picking a mid point), FM would cover that distance in approx. 2-3 seconds, if you can't see how that would affect FM's aerodynamics - well I can't help you with that....

So to recap:

1 - If FA was going flat out, no way he would catch the Renault in a SINGLE lap!
2 - FM was definitely in FAs turbulant air
3 - As GF says, all drivers on an out lap, which is EXACTLY what FA was on, should give way to drivers on a hot lap, which is EXACTLY what FM was on.
4 - the Stewards got it right....and Renault know it and are now back tracking.

Renault now say F1 is fair
From Alan Baldwin in London
September 12, 2006
RENAULT is confident the Formula One championship is being run fairly and without favouritism, team boss Flavio Briatore has conceded.

Speaking a day after his controversial outburst on Italy's RAI television, in which he compared Formula One to Italian football's match-fixing scandal and suggested Ferrari was being favoured, Briatore said he had been misunderstood.

"We have full confidence in everything ... we never believed that they (world governing body the FAI) were manipulating anything against Renault," he said in an interview.

"I am sure of the integrity of the stewards, of this I am 100 per cent sure."

Briatore felt, however, that the rules needed to be reviewed to ensure drivers were punished only for deliberate blocking actions in qualifying rather than unintentional misdemeanours. {I absolutely agree with this.}

Renault's world drivers' champion Fernando Alonso was demoted five places to 10th on the Italian Grand Prix starting grid after stewards ruled that the Spaniard had impeded Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa.

Alonso, who left Monza with his lead over Ferrari's Michael Schumacher slashed from 12 points to two after an engine failure, was adamant he had not blocked Massa and said bitterly that Formula One was no longer a sport.

"What we need to do in the future is identify really what is the spirit of the rules," said 56-year-old Briatore.

"The spirit in qualifying was that if someone intentionally stops you doing your lap time, they should be punished. This was the intention, or we should put it this way.

"The stewards have Ferrari's telemetry and maybe in that there is some proof that Fernando upset Massa. But for sure Fernando did not want to disturb Massa's lap," he added. {Which is exactly what I have been saying - even though it was unintentional - it still happened...}

"For us, Massa on pole position is better than Schumacher on pole."

Briatore excused Alonso's anger as that of a young man whose emotions were inevitably running high at a crucial stage of the championship.

Triple-H

Good memory buddy...
And yes, they were pissed!!!

matrix

I guess your admitting FA isn't credible either...and the more he talks the more I agree with you!

matrix

Of course they were pissed - Renault were victims!

Here Ferrari are manipulating the FIA, FM is lying, MS put him up to it....