Prisoner Monkeys

You don’t think they will have learned from that experience? Nobody, least of all the FIA wants a repeat of that episode.

But sure, continue to judge them based on something that happened a) five years ago and […]

@andrewf1 – There is a name for that: extortion. If the employee in question is only looking for a pay day (rather than the spirit of sportsmanship), they would go to the FIA. Going to the team and asking for […]

And cheating is a pretty serious issue. Chances are that by doing so, laws have been broken. When the Singapore scandal first broke, there was talk Briatore and Symonds could have been prosecuted under Singaporean […]

@ironcito – And then one of the Ferrari accountants starts wondering why the team has somehow developed parts without paying for them. So he goes to his friend at the wind tunnel and the two start talking, and […]

Considering that those employees would be working for a team that is *cheating*, they would have enough motivation to quit on their own. And it probably would not be hard to find a job with another team – once one […]

Indeed. They probably set a high cap to start with so that they can iron out the best way to police it, and then gradually lower it over the next few years.

Today is the closing date for the second round of new applicants for the 2015 (or 2016) grid. Reports out of Germany claim that the FIA has been impressed by both Gene Haas’ entry and the Colin Kolles-supported […]

Then how are they supposed to know if teams are breaking the rules or not? Max Mosley tried to introduce a budget cap that would have required the teams to submit their accounting work to an independent auditor, […]

It’s intended to stop teams from spending more than they should by hiding money in companies outside the team itself. That has always been the biggest issue preventing a budget cap from being workable.

@keithcollantine – All over the blog. Drivers being unable to go full throttle for a full race distance has been a recurring complaint for weeks.

It’s always a risk with whistleblowers, but I think it is a plan that could work. There are real, lasting consequences up-front: losing your best three results will not just hurt, but make it virtually impossible […]

@vettel1 – There is nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that recognises the choice of sexual orientation as a human right. There are a few articles that might apply with some interpretation, but […]