Re: McLaren verdict

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:25:05 +0100, Mike Fleming
<{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> wrote:

In article <4ctsr4-e7q.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jay Blanc
<j@xxxxxxxx> writes:

I certainly wouldn't hold it against McLaren if they 'released Alonso
from his contract' before the end of this season, especially if they
don't have constructor points to worry about any more.

I was thinking something along those lines, but not the "release from
contract" idea - as there's no constructors' points up for grabs, then
McLaren have nothing to lose by having only one of their drivers
finish all the remaining races, so there might be a certain amount of
unreliability and some rather poor pit stops and not-exactly-optimum
strategies creeping in on one side of the garage.

That would do so much damage to their already wounded reputation that
they'd really have some heavy meetings with their sponsors and
partners, and next year's deals would suffer badly... a really crappy
business idea. However tempting. ;o)

If they can really prove that Alonso has been partly responsible for
all this mess as the evidence seems to suggest, a further court case
could be on the cards!

Whilst Alonso has looked bad in all this and my opinion of the guy is
pretty shaky at the moment (I've always had a huge amount of time for
Alonso previously, so I'm staying open minded as far as possible) I
think the main problem is the FIA over-stating the significance of all
that's happened, and making a major deal out of what largely amounts
to paddock tittle-tattle. People *talk* about work, about their
competitors, about what the word on their particular street is...
mostly it's just workplace chat, not some Watergate-style evil
conspiracy. But that's not how Ferrari want it seen.



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