In response to my earlier question the FIA clear McLaren after Monaco probe?

Question

The FIA have cleared McLaren of any wrongdoing during Sunday's Monaco GP.

http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_2157864,00.html

Answer 1

It was pretty simple, there was never going to be any penalty because no offence was committed; running different strategies in case there was a safety car makes a lot of sense at Monaco. If there had been a safety car period before the first pit stops then Hamilton would have won and no-one would be complaining.

Answer 2

Let's backtrack a bit, back to the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix where, in rainy conditions and with only a handful of laps left in the race, Damon Hill was leading his `racy' team mate Ralf Schumacher. As I recall, they were told to hold their position and not risk taking each other out (of the race). The result of course, was not only a maiden win for Eddie Jordan's team, but a 1-2 finish.
In case you were wondering, Ralf was .932 back at the flag.
True, this happened before the infamous Rubens Barrichello-Michael Schumacher debacle at the 2002 Austrian GP and, perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems similar to the recent Monaco Grand Prix situation, yet I can't remember any howls of protest.
Att: tezgm99. Yes, of course you are right about Michael Schumacher blasting Eddie; I suppose what I meant to say is there was no general outrage about the `orders' issued to the Jordan drivers, except from the Schumacher brothers. lol.
Of course, as you suggest, the FIA did the right thing today (Wednesday); your summation is correct.

Answer 3

In my opinion, Mclaren issuing team orders for their two pilots to "slow down" bearing in mind the massive lead they had over rivals ferrari is fine; that is what F1 is about. Would a football manager whose team is winning, let's say 5-0 and 10 min. to go, instruct his players to keep the foot down? or will he order them to slow down thus avoiding the risk of injuries and exhaustion for the following matches? the answer is no.

At the moment, things are looking superb for McLaren, their first priority is to win the manufacturer's championship, specially being a new team with two new pilots who still don't know the car very well (Winner Fernando Alonso and Prromise Hamilton). Pilot's championship comes second. t would have been a disaster for Mclaren to lose the 1-2 podium (and 18 points!) because of their two pilots being allowed to compete directly and maybe force a crash or a mechanical failure.

McLaren is doing great,...keep it like that. It is about "Brains over hearts".

Answer 4

I have to say I have mixed feelings on this one. It's not like the Ferrari case where Rubens had to pull over for Schumi which actually fixed the result. I think young Hamilton may well have caught Alonso but it's a difficult course to overtake on and they could have taken each other out which is what Ron Dennis was concerned about. I'll forgive this one but hope they give Hamilton the same treatment if he's in front on a tricky course.

Answer 5

not something.....Alonso became into properly in the lead for many of the race, it became into obvious that Hamilton became into unable to conquer his group chief, so what became into the element in the two using recklessly and not getting optimal factors...The incident with Barrichello became into completely diverse, Barrichello almost got here to an entire end some 200m from the end to allow Schumacher by...i think of Ron Dennis basically did not word his answer in a greater seen way....the analyze could be the spotlight of what became into in any different case a run of the mill and predictable race....

Answer 6

actually, Gregnir, Michael himself came up to Eddie Jordan afterwards and blasted him for not allowing Ralf to go for the win....it's in Eddie's book, so I guess you can't please everyone eh, lol.

I am mighty glad the FIA cleared McLaren since there was no case to begin with (they told both drivers to cool down a bit, not just one)....no team owner is going to say "yeah, go for it and don't worry about taking each other out!"

Answer 7

a satisfactory outcome. Ron didn't change the result of the race by his instructions so it is really the only conclusion the FIA could come to. personally i don't think they should have even been under investigation.

Answer 8

and if the two had touched and wrecked each other all we would be saying is how stupid they were, backing off cause you have a good lead isn't the same ans pull over and let the other guy win

Answer 9

I don't see a problem personally. What's wrong with a team telling a rookie driver to calm it to reduce the chance of him crashing into his own team mate?

Answer 10

Total utter rubbish! McLaren are cheaters especially Ron Dennis