The Biggest Cheating Scandal in Formula 1 History
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- In the world of Formula 1, a shocking espionage scandal erupts, leading to a record-breaking $100 million fine and intense driver rivalries. Amidst this tumult, a tragic fatality shakes the sport to its core, highlighting the perilous balance between competition and risk in the pursuit of racing supremacy.
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Max Mosley said later that the fine was given because " 10 percent of it was because they cheated and 90 percent was because Ron Dennis is a dick".
Was so glad when he stepped down from the FIA, him and Bernie were corrupt dictators
Max Mosley also said he'd rather have his backside whipped until it bled than jump into a cold swimming pool
“It was $5m for the offence and $95m because Ron Dennis was a c***”
That’s the way I heard it 😂
Was Ron really seen that way
That copy shop clerk Should have been given lifetime paddock passes For every Grand Prix from Ferrari.
Nah he’s a snitch. Not even Ferrari want that
@@thegreatafrican3367Of course you don't. Italians always snitch.
That helped ferrari win the wdc and wcc that year
@@thegreatafrican3367you need to learn about rule of law, high trust societies, and the Corruption Perception Index
@@thegreatafrican3367imagine supporting crime
The ferrari fan was a menace and a diehard fan the he e mailed Stefan about the incidient😂😂😂😂😂😂
Like every Ferrari fan 🤣
Buwahahaha, nice shot.
@jacobshanemutambara5538
😂🤣😂
🤣😃😂🙄😀😭
Don’t mess with the Tifosi
I heard this story 20 times and never knew Stepney took his own life - RIP 😞
Right!!!
Same! And it changes how I feel about the story. Kind of messed up so many people have made videos on this and left that part out.
Me neither. It came as a bit of a shock.
R.I.P? the man was a thief!
Stepney was killed in a car crash for what i remember
It’s crazy how some many people have heard the scandal story but not about stepney’s death. It does seem like f1 and Ferrari worked hard to keep his name away from the sport.
It seems that he worked hard to damage his employer, that paid him good money (infact it doesn't seem he could find a better job anywhere else), out of pure disgruntlement.
One can be sorry he couldn't live with it, but that's all.
@@neutronalchemist3241 I’m in no way saying he was innocent in all this, because he wasn’t. Just pointing out that not many people have heard the story of his death which is quite surprising due to the nature of it!
@@alfieowen2014yeah ferrari is a good cover up company their reputation is what sells them so well everyone wants a damn ferrari I want one too but I hate the company 😂
@@andrew-rn9ui hahahaha well at least you’re honest brother
with the cash he probably got for the document..he could have just bought a photocopier and copy the damn thing himself.. what an idiot
or a cheap polaroid??
Yep, it would have cost him less than 300 pounds in 2007 money...
It was downloaded and digitised to disc - not the sort of equipment you could buy for £300 in Currys 17 years ago.
@@nectafarious8842 Memorex was selling a DVD recorder with Photoshop editor in 2006.
@@nectafarious8842 In 2006 I bought an Epson DX3800 printer/scanner for around £60 that could very easily scan documents to a hard drive. At a photocopy charge of 10p per page that would have actually been cheaper than going to a copy shop. You could even get fancier models that could feed pages in and scan them one by one.
Mclaren werent fined for having data, a common misconception. When they were found to have had ferrari data, no fine was brought. They were fined for lying to the fia, after alonso proved they did use the data after mclaren told the fia they had not
Except in F1, data from one car can't simply be applied to another... They are all bespoke, so this makes no sense. Other teams have been caught stealing designs in worse ways and never even got a slap on the wrist. There's more to spygate than most will ever know, because if it was told it would destroy the Ferrari brand. This is why Stepney is dead and why his book was never released.
They were fined because Max Mosley hated Ron Dennis. Max literally stated this later on.
@@Arctic_Falcon To be honest they should have been disqualified in that season. In 1978 Arrows used plans from the Shadow team because the lead designer who had first drawn the Shadown DN-9 thought they were his intelectual property but they were not. A court ordered Arrows to give up their first car (and design a new one "over night") and hand all parts and plans to Shadow. Considering that Mclaren had been using stolen data from Ferrari it should have gotten the same penalty at least.
seen so many videos on this topic, but this is definitely the most concise, entertaining way i’ve heard it told. keep it up!!!
Really happy you liked the video mate, and it really warms my heart to read a comment like this after all the hard work that went into the video ❤️
I have to agree. You should listen to the BBC sounds podcasts on this issue. Good listen
I didn't know Stepney took his own life. Very sad indeed. But the fine imposed by Mosely (a very nasty piece of work and that was being polite about it) was absurd and totally disproportionate. I don't think Ron Dennis is any angel but I don't believe for a second he would have knowingly condoned what went on between Stepney and Coughlan (who was equally guilty) had he known before Alonso brought it out. Nobody came out of this smelling of roses, but Ron did NOT deserve the public vendetta orchestrated by Mosely.
Alonso didn’t bring it out for the sake of being a goody, goody. It was pure revenge when he turned green at Hamilton’s promotion for being a better driver. I’ll never forget just how much of a racist he was. He should have been punished for that but in those days it wasn’t even frowned on in f1.
@@user-yj2wu5hf6i oh yeah the 'Cant say anything bad about a POC else it's just pure racism' argument.
Hamilton also knew of the e-mails Alonso forwarded to the FIA, and was also complicit in this nonsense. He would later be disqualified in his first race as WDC for lying to the stewards.
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@@user-yj2wu5hf6i lol, it had nothing to do with race.
That scandal had indirectly led to another - Crashgate.
Yes and recently it was revealed that Bernie Ecclestone and the late Max Mosely knew that Renault had cheated and kept it silent for a year before the truth finally emerged on the eve of the 2009 Singapore Grand Prix.
This led to Felipe Massa looking into legal action as the Safety Car that resulted from Nelson Piquet Jrs crash led him to pit from the lead of the race and he had the fiasco where he left the pit with the fuel nozzle still attached, causing him to receive a drive through penalty and costing him a chance at valuable points (he lost the championship by one point in the end to Lewis Hamilton).
Whether or not that goes anywhere I'm not sure. While I can understand Massa's viewpoint as the FIA had the power to void that race result, it doesn't take into account the results of the other races that year and it would be grossly unfair to strip Hamilton of that title when the incident at Singapore had nothing to do with him.
Thank you for making such great F1 content. This was the best video on this topic that I’ve seen and it is so refreshing to see an F1 channel that isn’t a rumor mill. It seems all other F1 channels and media are purely drama-driven and clickbait these days.
Thanks for all of these f1 videos
You know the car is rare when a Bugatti Chiron is just sitting in the background getting absolutely no attention.
It was not many decades before this fiasco that teams knew virtually everything about each others cars. One engine manufacturer could get their hands on anotfhers offering and test it on their own dyno to see what was what and not what was claimed. It was a lot cheaper to run a car back then.
Thanks for all of these videos on f1
Glad you liked them 👍🏻😊
Well done! Thanks for this.🙏
... Love it. Such a great recap. This story had me gripped back in 07
Always knew Dennis was shady, but Alonso, he's a real piece of work too. Happy to cheat so long as it benefits him. Mind you, look who his manager is.
The biggest surprise is why did alonso get so badly treated at McLaren as a two time champion. It makes no sense. Does anyone know what Fred’s salary was and was he initially on a two year deal?
No, Alonso was a 2-time world champion.. and had the absolute right to be given priority over a rookie, despite how good he was.. and don't forget, Alonso did his Hungaroring thing because Hamilton did not follow the orders to let Alonso through for his quali attempt..
Alonso is selfish.. absolutely, but never has he ever done something unethical unless someone else has done something first..
Hamilton vs Alonso at Mclaren
Ocon vs Alonso at Alpine
@@rishabh3150 agree. It was poor man management by Dennis. He obviously didn’t care about alonso because he had ‘his boy’ coming through. It was at that point he lost his team. Went from a works team to the joke it is now. One lucky race win since.
This is the best video on this subject. I remember this very well and also during the Japanese Grand Prix in that year was when my daughter was born.
Happy to hear your opinion, I put a lot of time and effort into making this video so I appreciate your comment ❤️😁
@@DailyFuelUp You’re doing a really good job mate. You’ve got a new sub here. There videos are excellent, like I said your video about spy gate is the best video I’ve seen on it. You put every detail in. Including all the conspiracy theories about NS being killed in a car crash. It a tough call it wouldn’t surprise me if he was intentionally put to sleep as he was hated by the community. But then again I could quite easily see him doing it himself as imagine living the high life like him to going to prison and can never do that job again. His life must of felt like it’s over and he probably couldn’t bare it as I would think he lost all his friends as everyone disowned him.
Kimis Title win felt and still feels just right...
Well yes, he was in the faster car so it was right. It *was* an illegal car though during Melbourne at least, maybe more.
@@jamesantill5065 he had a slower car but he is more skilled than Alonso and Hamilton
@@ivblizzard3616 2014 totally displayed that
@@Dolek135 He wasn't at his prime at 2014
@@ivblizzard3616 so what? what a lame excuse that is.
Thanks for this excellent video.
Top level reporting.
Great video! Keep up the good work mate.
Happy you enjoyed the video mate ❤️. Will definitely keep trying to make the best content possible 💪🏼
I’m really curious where that photo copier employee is now. Does he tell this story at the pub and how he started the biggest controversy in the largest motorsport in the world?
He's either keeping his mouth shut or he's dead
He now drives a 458 Italia.
Great stuff always wanted to see the whole story 👍👍
1:35 adrian newey... dominance follow this mans creations
Except for when Rory Byrne was designing winning Benettons and Ferrari’s!
Aldo costa
Please keep making these amazing videos your the best f1 CZcamsr ❤
So happy you enjoy my videos 😆
My goal is really to create the best quality f1 content and it warms my heart to read this comment ❤️
Many of these comments sound like they're written by bots.
Poor poor lorry (truck) driver, having to live with this for the rest of their life :( imagine just driving as per your usual day of work and some person just jumps in front without you being able to stop and then after you hear this whole story…
It's the same for train drivers where someone decides to suicide by jumping in front of a train.
Yes, must have been a shocker to see someone in Red pushing another man in front of a moving vehicle.
Thanks for These Videos
Happy you like them mate 😊
Hey, i remember when this story began. We followed it closely and I have to say that you have done an amazing job telling this twisted History. Thanks very much. Now ill LIKE and SUB. to your channel. Keep up the great quality and your channel will grow. I've been an F1 fan since Jim Clark won the Indy 500, mid '60s. We attended every F1 Race in Montreal from 1980 to 2014, serious F1 lovers. Best of luck to you on CZcams
Really happy you enjoyed the video and subscribed to my channel mate ❤️
I’m sure you will love our upcoming videos they will only get better 💪🏼
great video. thx. i knew a part of the story. Arrogant Ron Dennis blamed Honda for bad engine. But they didn't want to change the chassis. that's why there wher cooling problems!
If Trudy Coughlin hadn't chosen THAT particular copy shop at THAT particular time, or had given a false name, that bastard Dennis might've gotten away with it. EDIT: Pls note, I am NOT a Fartrari fan. Especially not after their sweetheart deal regarding THEIR cheating scandal.
Dennis wasn’t guilty of anything. In the initial investigation, FIA didn't find anything important to punish either team.
New evidence was uncovered when Alonso tried to blackmail Dennis, to underfuel Hamilton in Hungary 2007, using undisclosed emails to the FIA. Emails that Dennis had no knowledge of and which he reported to the FIA.
Let’s not forget it was also the season Ferrari was running an illegal chassis and didn't get removed from the championship.
Dennis didn't orchestrate this. Ferrari did.
Yeah, it's interesting how the truth tends to come out...except when a Ferrari seems to have 100 hp more in the acceleration zones, in a fuel flow capped formula. Settled behind closed doors.
@@Cloxxki The problem is that you do not know. Many insiders say, that it was the same system Mercedes used, but they were not punished.
Woking seems to be the conspiracy / scandal centre of the world. With the photocopy shop, and Prince Andrew popping into the Pizza Express there for an alibi, it's proper X-Files stuff!
Excellent video, super interesting. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it mate ❤️
great video!
hey just wanted to say that this is an incredible video and I can't even imagine how many hours you had to work for it, keep it up
So happy you enjoyed it, and yes I definitely put a lot of time and effort into making this video 😅
Great story, very well narrated, nicely received. Maybe DailyFuelUp should consider making one on the strange decisions taken in the Abu Dhabi 2021 race and its background, as well as the effects of the unlawful advantage RB gained by illegally violating the F1-budget rules in 2022. That was, in our opinion, the 2nd biggest cheating scandal in F1 history. That story would gain tremendous attention because it's effects are still being felt. It would be inspiring to see what role the FIA played and others including Mercedes.
And Alonso still could not win and never will despite all his supposed entitlement - he always thought he was better than Schuey and Lewie - NO WAY.
wasn't he involved in crashgate too? he's a menace 😂😂
My understanding is that Alonso knew nothing of the plan to crash the other car. He may have suspected afterwards though.
Sure thing HAMILTARD!...You're a M@R@N...KEITHBUCKLEY....sit your A$$ back on the couch and fish your video game!
Sure thing HAMILTARD!...You're a M@R@N...KEITHBUCKLEY....sit your A$$ back on the couch and finish your video game!
Alonso beat Lewis using the slower Renault the very next year and in 2009. Out qualified Lewis 7 times with the slower Alpine in 2022 and now beats him using the slower Aston. Hamilton without the extra 60HP locked in for 7 years, is mediocre.
The stretch of road Stepney did the you know what was in my home town. Still doesn't seem real
An interesting video. I had no idea there was so much dirty tricks going on.
Ron Dennis looks alot like Fred Vassure
This affair is strangely reminiscent of the "Green Fiats" case of the 1920s
Mclaren didnt win the constructors title in 1999, just 1998
Ferrari won it in 1999 but McLaren won the drivers title with Mika at the wheel
So you could say that 2 years in a row McLaren dominated before ferrari
But to me had Schumacher been avaliable for the entire season then he would have won the drivers title
Many times you do not get a promotion due to factors completely out of your control. If you are that unhappy the best you can do is to look for opportunities elsewhere.
The “Die hard Ferrari fan” in question who worked in cafe with printing and scanning facilities should not feel guilty! Although his actions would inevitably cause a man to eventually take his own life..as a fan he did what he thought was right. I’m sure his quick witted actions will never be forgotten by Ferrari F1 bosses👍🏽
No they did NOT !!! Stepneys OWN actions ALONE were responsible for that
You d;bag !!!!!
It wasn't the actions of the die hard Ferrari fan working in the cafe that led to Stepney's death. If Stepney wouldn't have done what he did then all these events could've been avoided. Besides, it's not even certain that it was a suicide. It could've been just a tragic accident.
@@horsepower523 Yes the Cafe worker was just doing his job. Err..oh hold on a second..
That was a very good and interesting video . Well done
Glad you enjoyed it mate ❤️
Crazy to think this would never be caught today
this need to be movie one day
This is WILD.
great video mate, subscribed, didnt know stepney died
Thanks for subscribing and happy you enjoyed the video mate ❤️
I also didn’t know before I started researching the topic to make the video.
quality of videos from this channel is much higher than before
Thanks a lot! ☺️ I am focusing much more on quality at the moment, which is why I am posting a bit less than before.
Massa should have been the 2008 WDC in more ways than just Crashgate.
Ways like getting lapped by his championship rival in silverstone?
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Hamilton's performance at Brazil was worse. He was well beaten by Alonso in that slug of a Renault as well (as he was at Japan)
Good content. Thank you
Happy you enjoyed it mate ❤️
Must be nice to watch an exciting, competitive season
I thought you already uploaded the video
This story needs a movie after this guy.
Nelson crashing for Fernando is worse
Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
Happy you liked it mate ❤️ will definitely keep it up💪🏼
This cheating put nobody’s life at risk. Briatorie put the driver forced crashing his own car’s life at great risk and the aftermath was completely uncontrollable, therefore risking many other peoples well being at great risk.
Briatore was the worst thing that ever happened to F1. And I think Alonso is still involved with him!
good job amazing video
The fact they didnt Ban Mclaren from F1 at least 2 years is a shame
You've left out one of the most crucial aspects of this story that often gets overlooked: Stepney and Coughlan were attempting to team up at Honda or Toyota as they were leaving their respective teams. It was confirmed by Honda that the two met with the CEO of Honda F1 (Nick Fry) on June 1, 2007. This was before Coughlan eventually turned on Stepney and claimed he kept telling Stepney to stop giving him information. It almost seems like the information was never supposed to go to McLaren at all, with the two of them jumping ship together elsewhere to run a team. But when others at McLaren caught wind of what was happening, it spun out of control, although the actual amount of useful information that could have been applied to a totally different car was probably microscopic at best. And Ferrari were already confirmed to be cheating in early 2007 (not to mention the years prior), which was likely enough for some to justify attempting to use the data.
As for Stepney, the *cough* "Italian mafia" *cough* most likely got to him. A lot of odd things led to his death, and no one believed him. He was just about to release a tell-all book called Red Mist, exposing Ferrari for being the corrupt company/team that they were (there's a reason I half-jokingly call them the Italian mafia). He had trouble finding a publisher to go through with it, so his version of the story must be quite spectacular and damaging to others. The book even got an ISBN number -- a copy must exist somewhere.
Joe Saward has also mentioned there is another side of Spygate to be told, which I hope he finally tells someday. Lewis Hamilton said in 2012 regarding losing the title in 2007, "I didn’t know at the time. But I do now. It’s not something I can talk about”, whatever that means. No one else will talk about it in depth, either. I strongly suspect the party who would be most affected by someone breaking their silence would be Ferrari, especially considering it's proven they were cheating in early 2007, which is one of the reasons Stepney went rogue as he did not approve of how the team was operating; and obviously had been that way for years. Maybe it was his way of leveling up the playing field after years of cheating and collusion with the FIA.
I suspect there is an entirely different angle to this that the media either never reported or didn't even know, which is usually the case with politics (and F1 is essentially a small political bubble within a global bubble, but they are all connected).
Stepney was out of line, he wanted the big job, but was massively under qualified, His ego was his downfall
2:15 - That's wrong. 1 CC, 2 DC, Ferrari was CC in 99
It is still happening in one way or another.
Great content
Thank you Florian ❤️
You think she could buy a scanner lol. But good that things came to light.
frank dearie designed Williams active suspension
I went to school with a kid called Stepney, he said his dad worked for McLaren and I always thought he was talking shit. I thought anyone competent enough to be high up in a leading F1 team couldn't possibly create such a knob of a son, really not so sure nowadays.
This clip just skims the surface if the whole sorry saga, so you need to listen to the 10 part BBC pod cast, it goes propper CSi on the entire happenings, it is fantastic i promise you.
Seriously?
"Or were there more sinister reasons at play?"
Come on DailyFuelUp; you're better than that.
Photo copying that many pages all with the famous & highly noticeable Ferrari Logo, would alert the attention & then curiosity of anyone.
Trudy Cogan, Mike Cogan & Nigel Stepney, could only get away with photocopying the stolen Ferrari documents themselves. By being lazy & paying someone else to photocopy copy the stolen Ferrari papers, then that 4th Person would be fully aware of the sensitive nature of the Ferrari documents & would almost certainly know that something was fully amiss.
Alonso as schumi's personel nightmare id a bit of an exaggeration just because Alonso broke his win streak at 2005.
And it was needed a huge rule change made expressly to break that dominance to obtain that.
@@neutronalchemist3241
Nobody agreed with Bridgestone making special tyres just for Michael though. That won him titles, this bias couldn't last for ever.
@@richy69ify Yeah... Yeah... Special tyres...
@@neutronalchemist3241
So you wern't watching back then but still tried to throw your weight around online lmao. Bridgestone developed their tires on Michael's car in testing. Other 'partners' complained or jumped ship. If Bridgestone had treated their partners better the rules wouldn't have changed and Michelin wouldn't have done so well.
@@richy69ify I wasn't watching?😂
Try another, child.
Had you been there, you would have known there were two tyres manufacturers since 2001.
The change in 2005 was for the tyres to have to last for the entire GP, and that advantaged Michelin due to the different structure.
Rule had been changed to end Ferrari's dominance. It had nothing to do with how Bridgestone (that was given the monopoly of the supply in 2007) treated the teams.
F1 has been corrupt for years, and it’s not going to change. Look at what Bernie Ecclestone has got away with. It’s a shame for the sport and the fans.
I think this video should've been titled 'The Biggest Stitchup in Formula 1 History.'
The voice & BGM & story telling is awesome - absolutely gripping; great content
Really happy you liked the vid mate 👍🏻❤️
Never knew how he killed himself. Horrible, nothing justifies.
bro can afford millions of dollars to build a perfect f1 car but can't use his own printer at home to recopy some pages smh
Amazing, the stakes are high.
Story behind Ron’s interesting. Teddy Mayer came from doing can am and because of f1’s burgeoning tv coverage decided he wanted to be on tv As team principal and replace Alistair Caldwell. He promoted Caldwell to a non job. The team went from the front of the grid to the back. Phillip morris (Marlboro) issued an ultimatum, we will put out own management in or pull funding. So Ron got his chance.
Well things are changing it seems with Noriss’ win last weekend.
This is so so sad for everyone but most of all so so sad to me at 70 I have been around a little so not stupid but when its a sport you love it hurts !!! Today I also watch Sunday leauge football for this reason Money is the route of all evel even in my beloved sport which has always been money orientated
I didn't know that Stepney committed suicide.
as a F1 fan for 30 years, I'm impressed with this content!
Happy you liked the video ❤️ I put a lot of time and effort into making it
Did he though or was he pushed?
@@billb7876 🤷🏻♂️
It´s a contradiction if you said "F1 fan for 30 years and did not know Stepney committed suicide". Cause as a fan, you would have known.
@@justinharper6909 probably because I am not a Nigel Stepney fan. 😉
Reutemann in las vegas 81, they ruined his car and gear box to avoid he could win the championship.
for sure this is on the podium with Abu dhabi 21
All could have been avoided if they just bought a scanner and did it themselves!
that's what I call quality content
Appreciate it mate, I put a lot of time and effort into this video ❤️
Even more than Flavio???
Great video. I completely forgot how much of a knob Alonso was that season teamed with Hamilton. Lewis had so much pure raw talent then.
Sir Ron Dennis 🐐
so both alonso and hamilton thought that their wheel pressure was being sabotaged?
Yea but for different reasons. Alonso thought it was to give Hamilton the upper hand. Hamilton thought it was so they could show the FIA that McLaren had a different car. That's why he can't speak about it since it would reveal they changed things on his car for the FIA which they might have copied from Ferrari.
Crashgate is in my opinion bigger and Massa even still can accept it. Fact that they knewabout crashgate before end of season, but not did things to make things right.
This video alludes to interference with Hamilton's car which caused him to lose gears for around 20 seconds or so, and cost him the race, as well as the world championship that year because of it (assuming the tyre 'issue' in China was a mistake and not deliberate). He even said he knows what happens but can't talk about it, which kinda sounds like he was sabotaged.
@@garyl5128
He also made mistakes. Then again he sill does
@@richy69ify Kind of a nonsensical and irrelevant comment in the context of the subject matter. Everyone makes mistakes but not everyone has as many opportunities at a world title or loses them due to circumstances out of their control, or even sabotage.
But Ferrari can cheat to their hearts content, engine irregularities, and nothing is done about it!
Look at them today: They can cheat all they want and still other teams are faster.
There is absolutely no real evidence that Ferrari cheated in 2019. None whatsoever. There's only rumors and hearsay. Exploiting a grey area in the rulebook is not cheating. And you actually dare to compare Ferrari's engine irregularities with flat out industrial espionage? That's ridiculous. You mclaren fanboys are more delusional than I thought.
If only Trudy had bought a scanner!
and a vibrator
and a vibrator ..apparently the photocopy guy threw in a quickie between docs
Motorway, they motorways and dual carrige ways in the uk, not highways.
Very good and correct!
Boy can I relate to the cliques in race teams especially when your not in them! It happened to me on a Race team because I did not see eye to eye with the team manager and was promptly let go when the team decided to move and race in another form of Motorsports, the only solace I have is I’m still around and all the players on that team that were in that clique have either passed away due to alcohol abuse or were driven out of other teams after the team failed miserably in that other series! A bit of Karma I guess!
Given I was still watching the sport and I never heard about Stepney taking his own life just shows they wanted to story to disappear.
Funny, Flavio was thrown out, never allowed to run a team again but Ron Dennis got to stay and run mclaren. Mclaren and Ron Dennis should have been thown out for years!
so true, colluding poms looking after their pals..bit like peverted prince andrew and his ability to dodge justice for child molestation
Flavio was a convicted criminal.
2009 title slipped through McLaren's fingers? That's a weird way to put it, it was never close for them
Hamilton’s car issue in Brazil that arguably cost him the championship was deliberate right?? Awful coincidence.
Can't win but the show must go on, really without Hamilton's car ISSUES he probably would have been 9WDC by now.
That's been the rumor for years. McLaren did a deal, get off lightly as long as they don't win the championship. So they had to sabotage Lewis' car. The electronics are so complicated and computerised these days it would be easy to just throw in a code to bugger up the gearbox.
The actual history :
What history is for British fans :🤓Alonso did this, Alonso did crashgate. Alonso bAD.
That Hungarian penalty is still the most disgusting penalty ever, like who ruins a 1 2.
Also Lewis beating Fernando by 0 points is a massive achievement in rookie season I mean that's Lewis Hamilton we talking about who became 7 time champion. If you want to really compare these 2 driver compare them on their abilities, For me it's Racecraft vs speed. Speed for Lewis, racecraft for Alonso.