FIA to keep watch on McLaren for Equality
The Formula One Administration shall ensure that the title is not decided by McLaren bosses but by the drivers. They have appointed a special scrutineer for the race who will ensure that there is no funny business going on at the McLaren garage during the season finale at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The appointment comes after Spanish Motorsport chief, Garcia had expressed concern over McLaren’s treatment of Alonso.
“I showed my concern over the situation that Fernando is going through, which is no secret, and Max Mosely reassured me,” said Gracia.
“The FIA are going to have an official who is going to watch very closely that nothing bad happens to Fernando, above all in qualifying, which is where there have been most complaints or strange situations in recent races.”
It seems that it was on his concerns that the official was appointed by Max Mosely.
Meanwhile McLaren stressed on their (in?)equality while treating both the drivers (the first line is funny, we all know that policy right 
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“The team wants to make it clear its policy of treating both with complete equality and fairness will continue,” McLaren said.
“McLaren and Mercedes-Benz will continue to take every step that is within their control to ensure that both Fernando and Lewis will enjoy the same opportunity to win in terms of equality of car, engine, tactics and use of resources.”
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October 13th, 2007 05:25
Is’nt it amazing how a while back McLaren had a lot to say when Barrichello had to move over to ensure Michael Schumacher secured the title. Even those ITV clowns were quoted as saying “We’ll be talking about this for a long time”…now they playing the whole McLaren scandal down…
October 13th, 2007 14:02
Did it ever occur to you that your personal bias could be playing a part in your observations (or lack thereof) that there is and have been funny business going on at McLaren on behalf of Hamilton. How many weeks ago was it that Hamilton was held up in the pits by Alonzo and his McLaren pit crew? When Alonzo was winning poles a few races ago, did you think that McLaren was favoring Alonzo over Hamilton? I think not!
October 13th, 2007 15:21
I am not sure who they support, although if i were to put my money it would be Hamilton, but i know one thing that McLaren did not play fair this season, not with regard to other teams and not with regards to their own drivers too.
McLaren fans i am sure will be angry at suggestions of favouritism, much like they were angry when we wrote about the Spy scandal. I had mail coming from McLaren fans which went to proclaim that they would sell their houses if McLaren had actually cheated, what happened then ?
I am sure a few of our readers must have shifted
There is only a certain degree to which personal bias affects things, facts cant be ignored, neither can good old common sense (insert cliché joke here)
October 13th, 2007 19:08
Christian Badali ….you accuse me of personal bias yet you agree with my perception of McLaren saga?????
October 13th, 2007 20:10
no I do not agree. It is not and cannot be bias, per se, if a team, at one point in the season showed favoritism toward one of its two drivers and then later shows favoritism toward another. It may be just as simple as what teams have always tried to do, besides winning the constructers, which is not available, ensure having the world champion be one of your drivers and attempt to boost the one that is currently leading. Please research the history of formula one and tell me a season this did not happen….
October 14th, 2007 06:38
Listen Badali…why don’t you research my original post and tell me what the hell the connection is..or are you just posting for the hell of it
October 14th, 2007 13:58
first of all NbV I was I initially responding to the article by the author of the website and my perceived belief that he had begun to show some bias toward Alonzo a few weeks ago when he began believing that Hamilton was acting out. I disagree with his assessment but I don’t think I disagreed with your initial post. Then you decided i was disagreeing with you and have begun this battle with me. I was actually calling out the website host for my perception of his bias, not yours.
October 14th, 2007 16:42
Ah yes, i agree that we are sort of anti-Hamilton at the moment atleast, i mean such a focussed and targeted exercise to show him as a super good well behaved everyone’s favourite driver. I mean at least i feel cheated as a F1 watcher that i wasnt shown the real side of McLaren and Hamilton.
Pro-Alonso as he is the one who opened the can of worms at McLaren, dont worry its a temporary phase, once we get something against Alonso again, the Spanish will be after our heads.
October 14th, 2007 17:32
Well then I apologise if that’s the case..I’m not anti anyone but all for fairness across the board…
October 17th, 2007 09:49
Is it possible to air up your tires on the highway and going 55 miles an hour. You could not use wires to give electricity to the wheel or rim. You must have a electric air pump on the rim for increasing air pressure, and it would have to be a small pump. The tricky part is electricity to the pump. This is solved with the rim having electronic solar cells around the rim. This would gather laser light energy from a laser beam shined on these solar cells while the car is going fast. Using these solar cells to get energy from laser rays and the rims air pump could then with no wires no sun light only laser light could be used. And this would solve the problem of having no wires attached to the rim. Because wires would just tangle together and mix up of wires.
October 18th, 2007 05:03
that this is even possible actually makes me a little ill. f1 is the stuff that is supposed to get my head away from politics and corporate micro management. fia shoots what remains of remaining foot just one more time to make sure it bleeds all over 2007.
October 18th, 2007 10:45
Javier is obviously describing a new way in which McLaren will cheat. LOL
October 18th, 2007 17:20
I wonder which team they ’stole’ this tech from