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Formula One : More exciting than a Soap Opera

Some random 2007 Season Review Bytes ::
My original headline was more exciting than a saas-bahu saga (Indian term for Soap Operas focussing on Mother-in-laws and Daughter-in-laws). Michael Schumacher’s retirement was kind of overshadowed by the conspiracies, counter-conspiracies and other exciting stuff happening, mostly off track though. All the teams had their roles, the role of [...]

McLaren Formula One :: The team that lies !

The Renault team have escaped all punishment in the McLaren-Renault spy saga.
Meanwhile Martin Whitmarsh claimed that they weren’t pushing for a penalty on Renault, maybe just like they weren’t looking for the world title for Lewis when they had appealed in the Fuel Temperature controversy. It may be recalled that later in the hearings [...]

Renault escapes all penalty in McLaren spy saga

Renault F1 have escaped punishment in the McLaren and Renault spy scandal. The fact that there was no evidence that Renault used the data and the fact that they didn’t lie about the whole incident who earlier had tried to lie their way out of a similar situation with Ferrari in the McLaren and Ferrari [...]

McLaren had leaked inaccurate information in Renault F1 spy scandal

The McLaren and Renault spygate scandal took another interesting turn today. The FIA rapped the McLaren formula one team and asked it to correct factual inaccuracies in the statements leaked to the press by them. It seems that McLaren had spun a web of lies to form public opinion just as it had done earlier [...]

McLaren reacts to FIA ruling, says it only wanted to clarify !

Woking, United Kingdom, Friday 16th November 2007: The FIA International Court of Appeal today rejected as inadmissible Vodafone McLaren Mercedes’ appeal against the FIA Stewards’ decision in respect of fuel irregularities at the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix.
As was made very clear prior to the appeal, the team was seeking to clarify the regulatory uncertainty that [...]

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