10 Questions For Max Mosley and the FIA

I am writing this post of 13th Spet, 2007 before the WMC meeting in Paris. I do not know what will happen in the meeting, but according to news reports and rumors Mclaren will be sanctioned.

Plantf1 asked following 10 questions to Max and FIA, I wanted to share them with this blogs readers.

McLaren look almost certain to be sanctioned at the WMC meeting in Paris on Thursday. Taking this as a 'given', there are 10 questions we'd like Max Mosley and the FIA to answer - in the interests of "sporting fairness" of course.

1. You say this is not a witch hunt and that it is all in the interests of "sporting fairness". Will you promise to follow up other examples of cheating within the sport with the same vigour?

2. If sporting fairness is your aim, will you now remove Super Aguri and Toro Rosso from the Constructors' Championship as they are clearly running 'customer cars'?

3. If McLaren are found guilty of cheating why should they just be removed from the Constructors' Championship? Surely the drivers in the cars have benefited from increased speed thanks to this information gained and their positions within the respective tables are also false?

4. In your letter to the McLaren drivers, the FIA promised not to punish them if they forwarded relevant information. Both Alonso and Hamilton have long term contracts with McLaren that are lodged with the contracts recognition board. If you prevent McLaren from competing in 2008, you are punishing them, so presumbaly this is not a sanction you can make?

5. In the interests of sporting fairness will you reveal who told you about the McLaren e.mails? It is too important to gloss over

6. Also in the interests of sporting fairness, and to prevent F1 sliding into further disrepute, would it not be wise to ask the members of the World Motorsport Council with links to either McLaren or Ferrari not to sit on this highly sensitive council?

7. Can you let us know how everyone voted afterwards. Also, publish the names of the stewards for each race on the data screens. In football we know who the referee, linesman, fourth official and referee assessor are for each Premiership match, every week.

8. If the information passed to McLaren relates to getting Bridgestone tyres to work properly, would you consider this to be partly the fault of the FIA. Your decision to switch from two tyre suppliers to a sole tyre supplier gave an unfair competitive edge to the previous Bridgestone runners. In the interests of sporting fairness surely everyone should have been made aware of the data.

* We note that you intervened in 2003 to change the tyre rule after the Hungarian GP, you intervened in 2005 to change the single tyre rule that was helping cut cornering speeds and you intervened in 2006 to allow only a future single tyre supplier in the sport. Bridgestone were the beneficiaries of such changes in all cases.

9. Under EU legislation are you sure that the letter sent to the McLaren drivers doesn't breach their fundamental human rights?

10. Will you take action against teams leaking information to the press and will you acknowledge that this more than anything else has aggravated the situation and brought the sport into disrepute? How is it that we know about the correlation between Coughlan/Stepney phone calls and Alonso/de la Rosa e.mails on the Wednesday before the hearing...?