well, my understanding was that Ferrari basically blocked the compromise
measures that everyone else agreed to by refusing to attend the sessions where
the
teams were called together to vote on an acceptable compromise. This is not
too too hard to imagine them doing, since they could see that if the Michelin
cars were eliminated their 50 million dollar per year but winless driver had a
better than even chance of actually winning his first race this year if he
was restricted to racing against pretty much only his teammates. I think that
if you read a couple of the news stories about this you will see that this is
indeed what caused the final situation, and that Ferrari had, in fact,
EVERYTHING to do with this.
On the other hand, you are very astute in realizing so quickly that I don't
know sh*t and also that Ferrari ownership is worth moral or other sacrifices.
As for the sound of the motor a friend and I were at Ferrari of Washington
(DC) last summer when they were closed looking in the windows like the pathetic
little boys we are and the race team was working in the back shop on their
cars. Jesus god that sound is magic.
In a message dated 06/20/2005 2:14:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mikey@b2systems.com writes:
> Like you said at the beginning of your e-mail, you went and read all
> about this so you could know what you were talking about...go back and
> RE-read since you didn't understand it the first time. What does Ferrari
> have to do with this ??? NOTHING !!! it had the proper tires and it raced
> ! So did Jordan and Minardi, they had the proper tires, they did their
> homework before the race and were ready to race and did. I personally
> think the entire thing should have been cancelled and/or rescheduled but
> Ferrari had NOTHING to do with this
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