From: mpconmy@gmail.com   
      
   a425couple  wrote:   
   > On 3/11/24 16:38, Woozy Song wrote:   
   >> Interesting part is that Bernie knew Piquet Jr. crash was deliberate,   
   >> but didn't investigate until end of season.   
   >   
   > Yes, "Interesting".   
   >   
   > And that is what gives this old controversy legitimate   
   > legs.  The officials knew improprieties took place   
   > in the points awarded, and yet they kept quiet about it,   
   > and hoped 'the wrongness' would just stay a secret.   
   >   
   > It did not.   
      
   Several things make no sense to me. The first is why you would spend so   
   much money relying on the testimony of an old man who is less than   
   reliable.  The second is his apparent certainty that the FIA would have   
   to cancel the entire race result if they found wrongdoing...even though   
   precedent suggests (Schumacher, McLaren, etc.) the team and/or driver   
   would lose points not the entire race being cancelled. The third thing   
   is that anyone would see it as "fair" to change the results after the   
   fact. While drivers do their best to maximise points, you take different   
   decisions and more risks if you are more points away, so a different   
   result in one race could well have (for better or worse) change the   
   subsequent races. You simply can't unpick these things "fairly".   
   Choosing the one change that happens to hand you a title...many years   
   after the fact...is being very selective.   
      
   This is going to be messy all-round. Ecclestone is going to prove a very   
   unreliable witness (he has already), and most of the others known to be   
   involved are either dead (Mosley) or have reasons not to get involved   
   (Nelsinho, Briatore, Alonso). Unless they have a smoking gun bit of   
   evidence, just proving the case will be hard. Getting precisely the   
   outcome they desire will be harder. This will be ruinously expensive,   
   make Massa look like a *very* sore loser and open a can of worms that   
   cannot end well.   
      
   (Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for Massa and how this has played out.   
   He's not the first driver to lose out on a title because of luck, and he   
   won't be the last. Attempting to litigate your way around this is going   
   to tarnish rather than burnish his reputation IMO).   
      
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