NONE of them should have been granted immunity, and the fact that of the 2 out of 3 perpetrators were given immunity, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to ascertain who the FIA wanted to go down for it. Unbelievable tactics from Max & the FIA.

Really does make me giggle how they’re still calling themselves BMW.

ajokay, that’s the power of name recognition. Sauber don’t wanna come in and be regarded as “one of the new small teams”. Maintaining the BMW name gives them some sort of leverage in identifying with the big boys. Certainly a marketing tool.

Seems everyone is leaving their car launches a little later than usual this year. I wonder why?

Because there is no testing allow till Feb. Gives them longe to work on the car. No point rushing it fo Jan 8th when it will just sit there till Feb.

Ultimately, Piquet is a big boy – if he didn’t want to crash then he shouldn’t have. I understand that he was put under pressure, and he felt there would have been consequences if he didn’t comply, but really he should have kept his integrity intact and said no.

Renault’s crash in Singapore was not the first instance of cheating in F1, nor was it the last – anyone who thinks this sport we follow is squeeky clean is pretty catastrophically misguided in my opinion.

These guys are ferociously competitive – not only having the need to perform for their own personal desires, but also those of sponsors etc – and to think that they won’t do whatever is absolutely necessary to achieve results stops short of what I would call a “sense of reality”.

If you really think this is “the worst of the worst”, that Flav is a “scumbag” because of it, and that anyone “even remotely involved doesn’t deserve to go near a race car as long as they live”, I suggest you take a little look around yourself at the world in which we live, and re-evaluate your sense of morality!

…Ferrari, who revealed their F2008 two years ago today.

Is that so? Seems everyone is leaving their car launches a little later than usual this year. I wonder why? Is Mercedes the only team so far to have given a date for their car launch (1st Feb)?