Why should Alonso be held responsible for a strategy in which he wasn’t involved at all, even if it was designed by his own team leaders for his apparent benefit? Okay, he benefitted the most, scoring a win, but it was also benefitted the other podium and points finishers. Let them all denounce the positions. Let the race itself be badged a farce. That’s the right thing to do, rather than just allow some Alonso-haters to vent their rage. Alonso denouncing the win won’t solve the matter. The whole race must be canceled (if it’s possible to do that, which isn’t the case). In other words there’s nothing we can do. The FIA should have investigated this earlier. Let’s hope it is promt in these things in the future.

Still that is not enough for SYM’s posts to be removed?

Piquet was travelling at about 80mph, coming off a slow series of bends and onto the start of the straight, when he used his throttle to rotate his car off the racing line into a wall. The impact was taken by the (tethered) rear tire and suspension, and there he stopped. There was no tumbling trail of carnage rolling down the track into the paths of the other cars.

Massa was hit by debris, dropped from a car travelling at more than 150mph. That was a most horrific and emotionally charged incident, but it is off the scale as compared to what actually happened to Piquet and I think what most probably could have happened in Singapore.

The case for the prosecution and the moral high-ground is that he (they) endangered the people around him and that is certainly true. But I see there being a low probability of having any collateral damage.

The main point is that they manipulated the result of a race. For me the safety aspect is a distant second.

cheers

Stop embarassing yourself with such stupidity.

By the way, no doubt both Hamilton and Alonso have acted regretfully this year at one stage or another. Hamilton was deceitful in the beginning of the year (a nice way to comment on his shameful lack of honesty), but at least he didn’t put everyone else’s lives in danger.

Either the entire race is tainted or it isn’t. All the results were affected by Piquet’s accident. If you truly believe that Alonso should give up the trophy, the logical course would be to nullify the results altogether. Then Hamilton loses 6 points and hands to WC trophy to Felipe Massa.

Ridiculous, right???

But I’d ask where in the world would a criminal investigation not investigate the involvement of the main beneficiary of the crime, particularly when he or she was also on the crime scene????

I realize it’s not a criminal investigation (yet) but the same logic should apply.

@SYM: if you hadn’t written that, I certainly would! thank you.