Who's in Charge at the FIA?

[CurtEgerer]

This F1 spy case is beginning to resemble an episode of the Keystone Cops.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09...cript_exposed/

" .... Fédération Internationale de l' Automobile (FIA) diligently published transcripts from those hearings on its website including a 115-page document released on 13 September, the day the McLaren verdict was reached.

But, despite blacking out secret information on the PDF transcript before posting it on the internet, the French-based motor sport council failed to realise that a simple copy and paste of the document into any text-based file revealed the hidden data. ...."

[Jim Garfield]

What a mess.

How would you like to have Alonso as an employee?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/62548

"We are not on speaking terms, but that does not matter," said Dennis during the FIA hearing on Thursday, 13th September.

"We have not had any conversations since that point," added Dennis, referring to the conversation in Hungary in which an upset Alonso told his team chief he had information that could be used against McLaren in the spy case involving the British squad and Ferrari.

"First, the relationship between Fernando and myself is extremely cold. That is an understatement," said Dennis. "In Fernando's mind, there is the firm belief that our policy, whereby each driver receives equal treatment, doe not properly reflect his status as World Champion.

[Hoffen]

What a mess.

How would you like to have Alonso as an employee?

How would you like to have Ron Dennis as a boss?

"Ron, outside the work environment, is a great guy. But he's two different guys.


"The guy who I signed with and played golf with, he just didn't exist in the office. He was just a different person, you wouldn't even recognise him.


"He wants to control everything, and I think Fernando is (angry) about that because he is not used to someone controlling everything and did not like that Ron was like that. I think Ron is used to drivers who don't say anything back. "

http://planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3213_2744838,00.html

I actually waded through and read the entire 115 page transcript, and its quite a revealing document, numerous typos and elisons notwithstanding. It seems clear that Mosley's mind (and hence the rest of the WMSC) was made up before the hearing began. Inabilty to grasp the intricacies of the pdf format are the least of their shortcomings.

"Who's in charge at the FIA?" indeed. Almost makes one long for the days of Balestre...

Speaking of cold, I think that its Ron's historically chilly relationship with Mosley that did him in here, rather than the detailed fact set before the council.

[silver911]

Obviously Senna was a real 'yes-man' as was Prost....or JPM or Kimi....or having such wall flowers as Gordon Murray and Adrian Newey...or working with Mansur or the Porsche guys during the TAG days....let alone Norbert Haug and the Merc crew.. perhaps Paul Morgan or Mario Illen were 'yes-sir, thre bags full sir types.

Or getting Norman Foster to design his new gaff...a right bunch of wall flowers every one of them.

Methinks that RD appreciates people who are straight shooters, who say what they mean and do what they say.