funkymonkey wrote:
Lojik wrote:
healey wrote:
I actually have alot of sympathy for the situation Piquet Jnr found himself in. He was 23 and was railroaded into his actions by a thoroughly unscrupulous Briatore. Of course he should have known better, but I don't see why he should pay for it for the rest of his life.
He's now doing very well in Nascar trucks, plus he entered two Nationwide races this year and won one of them. The guy clearly has talent, it just a shame he had the misfortune to get involved with Briatore during his F1 stint.
I kind of agree. It's very easy to judge, but really nobody has the faintest idea the pressure he was under or even perhaps the full truth of the circumstances. We all like to think we do the right thing all the time, but honestly most people don't. He did a dumb thing and has been punished, but in the grand scheme of things he's hardly a terrible human being.
Pressure or no pressure. There are certain lines you dont cross. That was one of them. Not only he was not good enough to warrant the seat on merit, he had no business putting other people or himself in the position where he agrees to cause a major crash.
Blocking, pitting, letting team mate by, being aggressive on track are all fine. But to cause a crash on purpose regardless who ordered it is an ultimate sin in modern F1. How FIA agreed for plea and immunity against information is beyond me. And Singapore government not wanting a drama let him walk. He is lucky to be free in the world.
Spying, cheating, lying all can be forgiven, this cant. We are talking about possibility of immediate bodily harm to people. Not just for drivers but for spectators who are closest to the whole track action than anywhere else in the world at Singapore.
Not to mention he managed to come out of whole thing with fat pay cheque thanks to the lawsuit is disgusting. I have no sympathy for him.
Where to begin..?
Senna & Schumacher, both giants in the sport, both in the top 5, if not 3, of the majority of Formula One fans around the world. Few would dispute their right to be recognised as among the greats of F1 and the sport has been richer for having them in it. Yet both deliberately caused accidents by crashing into other cars during a race. Not just crashing into a wall on their own, risking damage to themselves only, but actually using their cars as guided missiles to take out another competitor. It's arguable that there is no greater example of trying to cause actual bodily harm to other people, and these guys did it for personal gain. They weren't under any pressure by their teams, there was no outside influence pushing them into a corner. No, they did it because they wanted to win at all costs.
Now I'm a fan of both drivers, although I find those actions hard to stomach. Yet I cannot for the life of me understand the hypocrisy of demanding Nelson's head on a plate for what he did when he was clearly a man under enormous psychological pressure, while allowing Senna and Schumacher a free pass for whatever reason.
NPJ was an idiot. He shouldn't have done what he did, no question. But he put nobody at risk other than himself and arguably committed a far lesser crime than the two I just mentioned. He deserved to be punished, as did they. But he doesn't deserve to be constantly vilified and put in the stocks. He paid for his actions. People need to get over it and off their high horses on this.
I think there's a world of difference between Senna/Schumi taking competitors out, and NP's actions.
Senna (IIRC) made it clear that he was so angry that he would take Prost out if Prost was ahead of him in the first corner? As far as I can recall, he wasn't penalised for this as it was more acceptable at the time.
Schumi made a spur of the moment decision(s), knowing that he needed to beat JV (Hill?) to win the WDC.
NP, on the other hand, agreed to crash (after '07 when the stewards had made it clear it was not acceptable under ANY circumstances) when asked by
[/i]for no other reason than to improve his chances of being retained by Renault!
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Along with Alonso
get over it, seriously
By their logic we shouldn't ever take Micheal Schumacher's words seriously because he remains the only WDC ever to be disqualified from an entire World Champoinship season for so called "cheating"...
