Ferrari Mailing List: Re: F1 SPOILER

[Ken Rentiers (rentiers]

Bill you have hit the nail on the head.

Ignorantia juris non excusat

-k-

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Bill Rosen wrote:

> IMHO:
> Alonso was not unfairly penalized, he should have gotten out of the  
> way,
> and let the man on the hot Q lap, go by unimpeded.  He would not have
> lost so much time, that he wouldn't have had a final hot lap.  This  
> was
> not a race, it was qualifying.  Also, in the following, notice the use
> of  intention, intentionally and deliberately, which have nothing  
> to do
> with the validity of the penalty, as stated in the complete decision
> released by the FIA.  Beyond that, at the start of the race, both Fisi
> and Alonso were staged beyond their respective start position lines,
> another cause for penalty, not enforced.
>
> Alonso, close to tears at a packed press conference at the Renault
> motorhome on Sunday morning, said that the FIA's decision to delete  
> his
> three fastest laps had changed his view on what F1 was all about.
>
> "I did my lap without blocking anyone INTENTIONALLY," said Alonso,
> speaking in front of video screens showing on board footage from  
> Massa's
> cars of the incident.
>
> "I love the sport, I love the fans coming here, a lot of them from
> Spain, but I don't consider F1 anymore a sport."
>
> Alonso insisted that he did not block Massa DELIBERATELY and said that
> if he was penalized for what happened this time then it would likely
> lead to problems in the future.
>
> "If you see the video, then if this is blocking INTENTIONALLY we will
> have a lot of problems from now on in qualifying. If this is  
> blocking, I
> don't understand how we will race today if this is the minimum  
> distance
> (between cars)."
>
> Team boss Flavio Briatore made it clear that Alonso had not impeded
> Massa DELIBERATELY - and that he had only completed his out lap in
> qualifying at such a speed because he needed to get across the
> start-finish line before the chequered flag came out.
>
> "Yesterday Fernando was penalised for the lap, and I want only to tell
> you, Fernando never INTENTIONALLY wanted to stop Massa," explained  
> Briatore.
>
> "You know, he had a tyre accident. Fernando come back to the pits, we
> checked on the chassis and it was quite dangerous to send Fernando out
> again.
>
> "But we are fighting for the championship and the people need to see a
> show. This is the reason why we love the sport, this is the reason why
> Fernando go out and he made the chequered flag to start his  
> quickest lap
> by one second.
>
> "We told him by radio to drive like a qualifying lap on his out lap
> because really we were very, very tight, because we check the chassis
> and the suspension. He did a perfect job and we had no INTENTION to  
> stop
> Massa."
>
> "We don't want to argue with the decision, but we tell you what is our
> position - we are quite sad that this happened and Fernando takes the
> risk to do this lap."
>
> "We need to recognise that when you send the driver out in the  
> position
> he was, he takes a lot of risk."
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