September 2007 - General Stuff

[El Gordo]

Yes, I heard about Colin McRae -- and passengers. Sad news indeed.

I'm going to duck out of the F1 discussion because I'm clearly slightly out of the loop with the details of the case. Before I left, I was under the impression that the case revolved around technical details of the Ferrari car being disclosed/sold to a McLaren rep. The story hadn't filtered down to drivers openly discussing leaked Ferrari race strategy. I certainly wouldn't defend the former practice but my reasoning was that any disclosure of technical detail would be likely to be of longer term strategic benefit that today's drivers may well not know anything about, and therefore shouldn't be punished for. But the story appears to have inflated beyond that point now, so as I say, I'll shut up. I've no interest in defending cheating, unless of course, I'm the one doing it.

Talking of pear-shaped England teams, I understand the women's football team is doing OK.