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Originally Posted by Henry Schmidt

Nicely articulated with some points contested

Well thanks, I think.

Racer or not, in business whatever, it matters who's standing at the end of the day. Remember the tortoise and the hare? It doesn't matter if you have speed, if you can't bring home the points IMO.

MS' penalty was debated (hotly here too). I think it was worse than what happened this year between FA & LH. YMMV.

Don't you think that the McLaren in '05 was faster than the Renault? or was that just KR?

As to luck/reliability don't you find it strange that just "luck" leads to high failure rates w/KR in the McLaren and early this year in the Ferrari?

FA is very effective in helping his team improve. If you have just won the WC, somehow (I'll leave it up to you what contrib from FA vs ferrari data) brought your team up to speed, give your setup to the (admittedly fast) newbie so he can keep up w/you or pass you, would you be a happy camper? Realize that MS/9 WC's are not the typical career in F1. I think we'd all be scratching and clawing. Dennis' prior shenanigans w/Prost & Senna should have been a red flag to FA, but he probably underestimated LH's speed and/or the Dennis' requirement to give the setup to LH. FA wears his heart on his sleeve, big deal. I'd rather have someone tell me up front we're in a fight than deal with a snake (that would be LH)