[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by MFAFF

Afternoon Joe,

Still this side of the water?

It would be nice to have F1 without Max in the picture.. but I'd not hold my breath about Bernie not putting another of his puppets in place.

As for getting the fine reduced.....as its a deduction from money that would have been credited to their account, for transport etc I'm not certain how difficult it will be to get it 'changed'......by unilateral proposal by the FIA....and McLaren will accept the deal.....imagine tho if Renault's points are not changed....

I'd imagine McLaren might have a few words about that......

MFAFF,

Yes, still over here. Did not see your post until today. In CH now and on to Moscow tonight.

It may be a deduction of monies received but still it cost McLaren somewhere.

Art,

Sorry but MM is behind a lot of this. You notice that Renault has not gotten anywhere near the press nor fine that McLaren did, nor did MM say that he would drop the charges if Flavio resigned, something that he did with Ron Dennis.

I am not a big fan of Ron Dennis but he is the head of McLaren and MM has no right to say anything like he did in this matter. Asking for the resignation of any owner is far overstepping his bounds IMHO and really shows that this was a witch hunt against Ron Dennis and McLaren and not "fair and equal treatment" by MM and the FIA.