Posts by Joseph Jones12

Bradley Nelson2 said:They wouldn't be facing any penalties if they weren't such blatant cheats. ☕

Look, man, if you really want me to sit here and list at least five penalties that McLaren and Ferrari have picked up for the exact same infractions—or even worse stuff—I could definitely do that for you.

Take the 1999 season, for example.
DC is racing in the States and because the track is so bumpy, his wing endplates drop down by about 2mm, and of course, that's enough to cost him his points.
After that race, both Ferrari drivers—Schumacher and Max Mosley—are running those exact same 20mm wings that are clearly too big, yet the officials aren't handing out any penalties.

Regarding that $100 million fine, I should probably remind everyone that a Ferrari engineer actually sent over the blueprints for the car's ballast to Fernando Alonso, who then handed them straight to his race engineer to use.
In this whole mess, Alonso gets off scot-free while McLaren is the one actually taking the hit.

Someone was claiming that Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso basically ripped off Ferrari's designs, which is why I jumped in to set the record straight—Lewis didn't copy a damn thing.

That’s all I’ve got to say on this topic.

Goodnight.

Good grief, I honestly can't believe what I'm reading here.
It’s funny seeing all these self-proclaimed Formula 1 experts and FIA rule masters (shout out to the few who actually know what they're talking about).

It’s unbelievable how whenever some fan's driver has a bad race, everyone else suddenly becomes the villain.

Everyone wants to hand out penalties like candy, yet most of you don't have the slightest clue how Formula 1 regulations actually work.

If there were any legitimate grounds for a penalty, the FIA would have absolutely crushed McLaren, which is pretty much what history has shown us happens.
Otherwise, we should remember that McLaren once paid the largest fine in the history of the sport—$100 million—which is several times larger than any other major penalty in sports history.

Then you have people acting like geniuses while being completely clueless about what actually happened. Lewis Hamilton didn't steal a single thing from the Ferrari guys; it was actually Alonso who pulled those stunts and then managed to wiggle out of it, eventually leaving McLaren because his ego couldn't handle the fact that Hamilton was simply faster.

At the end of the day, McLaren remains one of the most penalized teams in the history of Formula 1.

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