[Team] 2007 Ferrari was illegal.

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by Marbot

Why don't you ask him?

The Brawn diffuser was legal. It was never banned during that season. But just to prove that you can get it wrong, Toyota and Williams also had double diffusers from the beginning of the 2009 season.

And unlike Brawn those 2 teams spectacularly failed to make the most of the performance advantage!! Rosberg should have won his first race or 2 that year, and Glock also looked likely to until Toyota bungled a load of strategies, namely Bahrain!

OT but needed posting!

[ss_collins]

Actually I have asked Newey about the BGP001 diffuser. It was deemed legal so its legal... the 2007 Ferrari was never deemed to have run in an illegal condition - question is why did McLaren not protest?

[P38 in workshop]

Originally Posted by ss_collins

Actually I have asked Newey about the BGP001 diffuser. It was deemed legal so its legal... the 2007 Ferrari was never deemed to have run in an illegal condition - question is why did McLaren not protest?

Could it possibly be because protesting would reveal that they had rather a lot of information about the car?

[JABWOA]

Never said it was illegal, but when Newey presented his idea of the diffuser to Charlie Whiting he was told it wasn't allowed. So they dropped the idea. That's one of the reasons they protested the cars at the start of the year.

[chillibowl]

somewhat different version/motives though then what we had heard about back in the day.

iirc the story back in the day was that Stepney and Coughlan were going to take the info to a new team as opposed to Stepney being opposed to winning at any cost and was also surprised that Stepney had shared the info so early in the year (prior to the first race of the year).

Originally Posted by P38 in workshop

Could it possibly be because protesting would reveal that they had rather a lot of information about the car?

interesting question. in light of this 'new version' of events my question would go one step further to ask if Mclaren chose not to protest (thereby protecting their source) then did they keep it to themselves in order to integrate it into their own designs?

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by P38 in workshop

Could it possibly be because protesting would reveal that they had rather a lot of information about the car?

Visions of McLaren handing stolen data on CDs over to the FIA as evidence of Ferrari 'cheating'.

There ought to be an F1 film/documentary done about it!