Кстати, я так и не поняла из огрызков переписки каков был бы штраф. Заявление "punishment should be "heavy enough to ensure that no team was tempted to use qualifying tyres in the future"" никого бы не удовлетворило. Сказали бы чётко чего хотят, может и рассмотрели бы вариант, а такой дамоклов меч... нафиг. Всё верно сделали.
Ой, какая прелесть в заявлении Стоддарта.
Тодт в интервью заявил, что с ним по поводу шиканы не советовались даже
"Bernie Ecclestone agreed to speak with the one team principal not present, Mr Todt, and to inform the FIA President, Max Mosley, who was not present at Indianapolis, of the planned solution to allow the successful running of the US Grand Prix...
At approximately 1055 hrs, Bernie informed us that not only would Mr Todt not agree, stating that it was not a Ferrari problem, but an FIA and a Michelin problem, but also Mr Mosley had stated that if any attempts were made to alter the circuit, he would cancel the Grand Prix forthwith."
""By this time, the nine teams had discussed running a non-championship race, or a race in which the Michelin teams could not score points, and even a race whereby only the Michelin teams used the new chicane, and indeed, every other possible option that would allow 20 cars to participate and put on a show, thereby not causing the enormous damage to Formula 1 that all those present knew would otherwise occur."
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns15087.html
Нет, прелестно, просто прелестно. Я тащусь как удав по стекловате.