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Or Vettel to blow his engine

After what RBR did to Vettel's car prior to the Abu Dhabi GP, I'm fine with Ferrari also exploiting the rules to benefit their lead driver.

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If Webber was forced a gearbox change to benefit Vettel then there would be a fucking uproar on this forum, lol. People seem to expect Massa to sacrifice his entire weekend to aid Alonso, but as soon as there is even a hit of at RBR, shit hits the fan.

Jonathan Noble reporting the rumour.

Yes and no. I don't like teams exploiting loopholes in the rules but if it's fine for one then it should be fine for everyone else.

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Right, but there is a difference from starting from the pit lane gets you out of Parc Ferme (which has happened numerous times since this system was introduced, just not to title contenders) and penalising your own drivers. If Ferrari had started from the pit lane because of a similar issue then that's fine. I think that loophole will be closed if it happens again. We may start seeing cars which unexpectedly go out in Q1, or low down in Q2 starting from the pit lane in order to use this idea. At which point they'll close it.

Do people have any standards? If there's even a hint that RBR don't treat the drivers equally then the tears flow and flow and the hate for Vettel is strong. But as soon as Ferrari decide that Massa has to be penalised because Alonso is bottling it, suddenly that's ok lol. If we're going to consider this acceptable then that's fine but then we can't sit and bitch when a team does it again later.

Alonso can sit and say he's fighting Newey, not Sebastian, but Vettel can also say he's fighting Ferrari. He doesn't have Webber going out and creating holes in the air for him during qualifying. And RBR sure as hell won't change Webbers gearbox to get Vettel moved. You can't have it both ways Fernando.

Webber will move away for Vettel any time,aswell Vergne and Ricciardo. We all know it.
And Fernando indeed has to fight both Redbulls,Toro Rossos,he has just Massa who will help and move away. If everyone can take advantages from loopholes in the regulations,Ferrari can do aswell.

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If Ferrari change Massas gearbox, Red Bull should change Webbers thus putting Nando back on the dirty side.

lol, Fernando is fighting 4 cars. Those pesky STRs, always taking away points for Fernando. He has it so hard.

But then he's still a row ahead of where he currently is.

It's not meant that way. If Fernando was starting from back the STR for sure wouldn't let him pass like he's a lap ahead as they did to Vettel. But I can say what I want,you will always think you are right and have something else to say.

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I'd rather keep Massa up the front to have the chance of exploiting any problems Vettel has at the start. No problem to drop Massa behind Alonso on the last lap if that's needed, don't see that much benefit from doing that before the race even starts.

lmao

Like how Saubers are then? Remember they were so closely tied to Ferrari at one point that the car was a photocopy that'd make Stepney and Coughlan proud.

Everyone is acting like Fernando is overcoming such an incredibly impossible feat. Even Fernando is talking about how it's not fair. Well, Fernando has a car out there making drafts for him, giving up his own qualifying runs and tyres, and apparently will now take 5 place drops just because he's not been pulling his own weight. That's not quite as one sided as people make out is it and Webbers not had to do anything close to that.

I find it funny how I always thought Barrichello was Schumacher's bitch. The Alonso-Massa relationship takes that understanding to whole different levels now.

It gets Alonso off the dirty side and onto the clean side of the grid.

It actually would help Massa a little bit as it would do the same for him.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

I think you're semi-misinterpreting my comment.

So far I've not seen anyone come out in support of this move by Ferrari (bar me) nor has anyone showed any compassion or remorse against Felipe being treated like this by the team. But this is a team sport and if Mark was asked to do something to benefit Seb, I'd be fine with it.

I'm looking at this rumour from a binary level. Loophole versus loophole, regardless of the scenario in my opinion neither is correct. But if one team can use a loophole in order to gain a benefit then another team should be able to do similar.

That all said, Ferrari could do all of this to help Fred but quite frankly it won't make any difference as Seb will still smoke them (and the rest of the field).

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I can see this Picture which shows Alonso and Massa with Rifles and there is a Big FAIL sign on it if that would happen