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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
CAn someone clarify one think for me please. How is it that the constructers lose points for using illegally obtained information (which alledgedly have given them an advantage gained in dubious manners) but the drivers still keep the points. Aren't they racing in the same cars and got those points which Maclaren can no longer use? Im a bit confused.
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The FIA did a deal with the drivers, by offering them immunity from losing their standings in return for providing them with evidence such as emails rumoured to exist between Alonso and stand-by and test driver Pedro De La Rosa.
Bu I wouldn't spend too much time trying to apply logic to this situation. There is too much secrecy in the whole 'court' process, which does fuel certain theories, but it's pretty clear that this document was not passed to McLaren until April of this year, well after the design for the 07 car was finished. Whilst there may be a few tweaks that they
could have borrowed, the main question you have to ask is why? The Ferraris are not the best ones they've ever created this season, so why would you copy them?
And it would be simple for McLaren to show any changes that they made to the designs of this season's car since April, therefore proving or disproving the case against them.
The only issue of doubt of course would be next year's car, which is not built yet...so as far as I can make out this is a pre-emptive strike by the FIA, penalising a team on the possibility that they
might use someone elses designs for next year. Mad.