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PMC wrote:
Surely even though rules are there to be obeyed, Ferrari went against the spirit of sportsmanship?

My thoughts exactly :-(

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"Wrongly refused to allow your cars to start the race"

WTF?!

Would Mosely and the rest preferred that they raced on the unmodified circuit at full speed and risk 14 cars crashing?

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Mosley is so far out of touch he'd be closer to the F1 teams if he was on Alpha Centauri.

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I'm thinking Bernie was wrong in telling the teams to go out to their track positions for the formation lap.  If they hadn't the race might've been abandoned.

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Tahoe wrote:
I thought the Barcelona spec tyres had the same flaw?!

Nope, but they were untested rubber.  Michelin was confident, and the teams accepted that so they would've gone out on them.

It just would have been so much better if the ferrari's didn't make it to the finish line, almost happened when schumi nearly bumped rubens off

I would still be laughing today if that happened :-D

A Jordan 1 - 2 and Minardi getting a 3rd place :banana:  :crazy:

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Doobrey wrote:
Maybe the teams will decide enoughs enough and bring forward the GPWC idea to 2007 ? Dunno if the Concorde Agreement allows them to do this though..but then what can the FIA do? Ban them from a series they no longer want to race in?

He would probably be able to sue them for no-showing, creating a 1 team F1 season, not honouring the concord agreement until the end of 2008...

There's probably loads of things Mosley could sue for.  He probably would too.

I'd agree with Abou77 with putting Bernie in charge.  He actually talks to the teams all the time, so he'd know better than anyone how to run things smoothly.

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James Allen's USGP verdict:

How close did the Sunday morning meeting come to finding a solution?

Not close at all. I understand that at one point it was suggested that the Michelin cars should drive “slowly” around Turn 13, even using pit lane speed limiters.

Considering that the Bridgestone cars would have been doing 190mph, that would surely have been more dangerous than exploding tyres!

If the debate was on that kind of level you can see why a load of vastly experienced men failed to see common sense.

If you’d had a dozen middle-aged women in there, the problem would have been sorted in 20 minutes.

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PMC wrote:
If Minardi's financial situation is as dire as many say then a fine might tip them over the edge.

Minardi shouldn't be fined - they're bridgestone runners.  It's only the michelin teams that will be penalised.

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Doobrey wrote:
I'd hazzard a guess and say Minardi are on Mosley's {bleep}list too.

Yes, but I doubt there's anything they can do about it ;-)

If Minardi were to be punished then they'd have to punish Jordan too - something I can't see happening.

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BBC

Punishment has been deferred until 14th September.

Don't know what it'll be, but Mosley says it'll be financial penalties for the 7 teams and not points deducted.  It would be points only if it was an illegal performance benefit.

Michelin will not be punished (they weren't at the meeting and were never invited to it either - only the 7 teams were there) but they have said that they'll refund the punters.

The teams were found guilty of 2 of the 5 charges.

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Refund

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All the teams except Ferrari agreed to cut testing this season, so a ban on private testing will forever be out of the question.

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Yes, congrats indeed.

Now lets see if Raikkonen can win his first title next year and get this rivalry going!  Or Montoya actually.  That'd be great.

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Yup, great race indeed.

I haven't managed to watch the qualifying yet, but the races have been great.  Good to see Fisi get another win.

Pity about Raikkonen though.

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Yeah, but not that many more actually finished this year :-P

Good to see that the titles won't be decided too early this year :-)

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Definitely race of the year so far.  Who says 13 is an unlucky number?  Oh yeah, MS, FA and KR I suppose!

Shame not to see the leaders actually finishing, but they did extremely well starting from way down the grid.

Great to see de la Rosa get a podium aswell :-)

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To be fair to Jensen, he hasn't had the tools to get the job done.  Or he has, but it's conked out on the third lap or something!

He has had quite a bit of bad luck.  Just a pity it's too late in the season to really capitalize on this though.