Re: Why I think Hamilton should pay for this one

ric zito wrote:
Dave Baker <Null@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

..rather than the team.

Dave, with all due respect, I believe your well known and
self-confessed emotional attachment to team McLaren is colouring your
judgement here. You love that team so much you seem prepared to go to
unreasonable lengths to protect them, including being unjust.

If you think I "love" McLaren, or any other team, or driver then you don't
understand anything I've posted in the last ten years or what my attitude to
the "sport" is. Just because I know someone who works there doesn't dominate
my viewpoint. Everyone I know works for someone or other but that doesn't
make me fall madly in love with their particular company. One of my cousins
works for Tarmac but that doesn't give me any unusual affection for
roadbuilders.

It is however clearly fair to say I know somewhat more about McLaren and
their inner workings than I do about any other team and that gives me more
interest in their situation and what keeps happening to them. It does not
affect my ability to remain impartial though. I never changed my view that
they were unfairly treated in 2007, especially when Renault got let off scot
free, however this time they've shot themselves in the foot in a manner
which frankly makes me want to throw my hands up in disbelief. One of the
phrases I've used several times in the past is "snatching defeat from the
jaws of victory" which the Mole first used when he was talking to me about
something, I think perhaps the bald tyres fiasco and then sliding off the
track on the way into the pits a year ago. Mclaren seem to have an ability
to do this to themselves whereas other teams, Ferrari perhaps most notably,
seem to wriggle out of difficult situations without harming themselves. You
might attribute this in large part to the FIA and I probably wouldn't
disagree.

How they've handled this Sepang situation is just dumb. Rock-ape,
neanderthal, tree frog sized brain dumb. After everything that's happened to
them in the past they still appear to have put no coherent mechanism in
place for handling crisis situations. They had an hour before being called
to the stewards to look at the evidence, decide what had really happened and
agree their account of events. Instead they told one thing to the press,
another to the stewards, carried on lying at the second enquiry and turned a
non-event into a disaster. I've got absolutely no sympathy for stupidity of
this magnitude although I still hope the FIA don't use it as an excuse to
victimise them again.

I'm a great believer in natural selection, survival of the fittest and
Darwinian evolution. If McLaren continue to demonstrate a lack of ability to
handle themselves as well as everyone else then perhaps its inevitable
they'll go the way of the dodo and if so I'll lose little sleep.
--
Dave Baker


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