Today's the day... spy scandal

[jonovision_man]

... should know within a few hours what the McLaren punishment is (or isn't).

And what the new evidence was! That's going to be interesting.

jono

[Robstar]

Looks likle 50-100 million pounds!!
In England, so everyting is in pounds...
Just watched an interview with Eddie Jordan, & he had a great question: Where is this truckload of cash going?

[NismoZ]

If you believe Stoddart the FIA (Ferrari International Assistance) will know how it should be spent!:D

[datachicane]

Ron Dennis may be the biggest prick on the planet and a tragic waste of skin, but this ruling is still a huge travesty, IMHO. We're watching the final vestiges of sport being stripped away, leaving us with a nice steaming pile of Corporate Entertainment.

Who was excluded and fined for appropriating Jim Hall's wings? Chapman's stressed engine? The Fosbury Flop?
At what point did emulating the innovations of your competitor become tantamount to cheating? Isn't that sort of emulation and cross-pollination the very mechanism that's marked the technical evolution of this so-called sport?

If Ferrari were in the business of selling flexi-floor F2007s, one might make the argument that their sales might be impinged in the marketplace by flexi-floor MP4-22s, but there's already a process in place for protecting Ferrari from such harm- it's called a patent. They're not in the business of selling F2007s, though, and there certainly aren't any relevant patents waiting in the pipelines.

The current worldwide trend towards the preservation of 'intellectual property rights' above all other concerns will undoubtedly have the effect of stifling rather than encouraging innovation, I fear.

[Methanolandbrats]

Ron Dennis may be the biggest prick on the planet and a tragic waste of skin, but this ruling is still a huge travesty, IMHO. We're watching the final vestiges of sport being stripped away, leaving us with a nice steaming pile of Corporate Entertainment.

Who was excluded and fined for appropriating Jim Hall's wings? Chapman's stressed engine? The Fosbury Flop?
At what point did emulating the innovations of your competitor become tantamount to cheating? Isn't that sort of emulation and cross-pollination the very mechanism that's marked the technical evolution of this so-called sport?

If Ferrari were in the business of selling flexi-floor F2007s, one might make the argument that their sales might be impinged in the marketplace by flexi-floor MP4-22s, but there's already a process in place for protecting Ferrari from such harm- it's called a patent. They're not in the business of selling F2007s, though, and there certainly aren't any relevant patents waiting in the pipelines.

The current worldwide trend towards the preservation of 'intellectual property rights' above all other concerns will undoubtedly have the effect of stifling rather than encouraging innovation, I fear.
Figuring out how the other teams car works and copying it is one thing, working off of stolen documents is quite another.