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FERRARIGATE: All I know is that I know nothing, and yet I am talking about it!

Affair, scandal, precedent, war, hogwash… we could still list the words that have been used in recent days in connection with the now infamous affair around the secret agreement between the FIO and Ferrari.

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Let me explain in the introduction that if someone has the feeling that the author is going to conspiracy theory in his column, to write nonsense, hint and speculate, blouse in three gorgeous, do NOT be mistaken. And if it's in anyone's heart to label me a fool, that's fine too. But let me say in my defense or mitigating circumstance that I am no less a fool than anyone who deals with this subject and transmits it to urbi et orbi on various platforms. And I’m no less a fool than those who take that for granted. Because TIMES only RARE people know the BACKGROUND OF THIS MATTER!

Protesters turned to the FIO to investigate last season’s Ferrari engine based on suspicion and allegations. Without evidence that even the FIA ​​couldn’t find - or didn’t want to.

It was around 12 minutes before 18 p.m. the last day of testing when FIA published an informal investigation report Ferrari engine year 2019. A scant explanation, with a secret arrangement and a stamp The Tamarin Seed!! On the first ball, I was also confused by the fact why with the fraudster concludes a cow bargain. But based on reactions, mostly Mercedesa s Toto Wolff at the forefront and with help Helmut Mark iz Red Bullah, I started to look at it a little differently. Wolff and company, among others, reacted most indignantly to how the FIA ​​could not unequivocally prove legality or illegality of the engine. So why teams they do not believe your umbrella organization? Do they know anything more?

Before I continue, let’s take a step back. Infringement information rules, fraud, walking through the red zone not just the gray, is supposed to intervene some whistler. Now we ask ourselves komu? Where did the initiative come from and where did the requests and requests come from, yes FIA review in a little more detail Ferrari engine? We know, it's no secret. And this is where the reaction stings me Wolff, which, however, whistles at a possible march to court cannot invoke. What’s more, if Wolff knows the details of the Ferrari engine, it can be labeled as espionage. We are not going to go into 2007 now because the cases are not the same.  

Information about Ferrari's policy violation should be provided by a whistleblower, but to whom? Just to the FIE address or somewhere else? Many also talk about the hacker intrusion into Maranello. Who would know…

And based on that collocations and hysteria and panic that even outgrew coronavirus, I looked at some web portals that are in favor of one side or the other. I find - I dare say this myself - that it is practically a fight between two big players. Fight for money, power and authority. And if the path of Machiavellianism is to be taken, so be it. At a time when there are so many media platforms, you can scatter yours at the speed of light truth or “truth”. We can read online that the FIA ​​is supposed to succumbed to Ferrari - Again. The FIA ​​has fallen under by pressure from Maranello. Mercedes is not a bad loser, the piece is talking. Italians in more hot-blooded and temperamental tone write about the attack on Full name in Ferrari, just before the start of the season. Even more picturesque are the words: Now is the war! War for money and power. And he explains why secrecy and secrecy: Maybe because a disclosed agreement would reveal it thin area in which Ferrari advantage is allowed?

Bernie Ecclestone recently stated back that seven teams should sues FULL NAME. It's about the money that belongs to them. By the way: money is also the second most important factor (except for Mercedes) in the debate around Ferrarigate. Bernie claims this has never happened to him and he has always found consensus among all parties. But it is precisely Ecclestone that is in part the source of today’s crisis, which has very little to do with the Maranello engine. He is manufacturers enable more power, Ferrari privileges, big bonuses - all with the intention of continuing to bind to Formula 1. And the manufacturers have built their power and influence. To the extent that it is Liberty Medium, the new owner of Formula 1, in cooperation with the FIO decided to give them with new decision-making structure cuts the wings by abolishing the various commissions and working groups in which they are manufacturers and large teams exercise their will.

Jean Todt, the president of the FIE, cooked a very sour and hot soup with a report on the completed investigation of the Ferrari engine and a secret agreement, which he will have to eat himself.

I don’t rule out that it is Ferrari cheated or tilt over the edge of the policy to make no mistake. But I, you and many cannot prove it. They could have been on the inside edge and it is all this doing the seven, under the influence of Mercedes and also Red Bullto them political pressure new forms. And that in doing so refer to fans and co-owners Formula 1, however, is a bit low for me. But they have no eggs, however, they say they demand it in in his own name? And aren’t the co-owners smart and determined enough to tell themselves what doesn’t suit them? More than that I delve deeper into this matter, all the pain seems to me that Ferrari engine last season is not at all the actual reason this media mudsling and washing dirty laundry. There will be more and more of the latter. It can be in the background something completely different, but I personally wouldn’t want to get into that because we can land in the end at science fiction.

Still one fact, which raises many questions: to date, no one has signed a new one Concorde agreement. Whoever plans to perform from season 2021 forward, he will have to do so soon. New rules, new race cars, new tires, everything new. And on on the basis of uncertainty and speculation with some teams, let’s look to the near future. For Renault it is not yet known whether 2021 will be present at all, Honda committed to 2021, the big question remains. It means that two teams (Red Bull in Alpha Tauri) without motors. Also Haaswhen already mentioned, hangs. If we add this up, it theoretically means that formula 1 it may be left without two manufacturers and four teams. They just stay two manufacturers, only two engines: Ferrari and Mercedes. Two great player.

Did the war for power and money between the manufacturers - or rather the two manufacturers - flare up in Formula 1? Between the two biggest players taking advantage of the royal motorsport class as a training ground to assert their own interests?

Finally, let me add that it will be the most eye-catching the moment of the beginning of this whole affair. Maybe someone could tell they are lawyers needed so much time for a few sentences unofficial investigation report, others may on lazy among FIE technicians, which took half a year to inspect one engine. Again, the third to wait real timingthat the matter would resonate across seven mountains and seven valleys. I hope so actors one day they tell the gist or the actual background to this case. Something will had to happenbecause it can be dragged like a spring snake indefinitely and could be in worst case scenario led to system breakdown, as we like to say.  

In a week's time, the inaugural race of this year's season in Melbourne is on the agenda, a season that will be in the shadow and darkness of the coronavirus and one of the biggest crises in history and the season - Photo: HB Press

Anyway, all of us together can grieveto be this season took place in coronavirus shadows in claims the themes of that affair, of which we all know only that we know nothing. But we read and talk a lot about it.

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