#spygate

[valyrfia]

I trust Fernando Alonso to know an illegal McLaren when he sees one

[otterducks]

imagine being involved in not only the most infamous f1 scandal, but the second most infamous f1 scandal, one of the more sketchy team sponsorships, alongside one of the most notorious team orders rule breaking. couldn't be my good friend fernando alonso

[flyingfish-in-a-boat]

happy 17th anniversary to the insanity that was the 2007 hungarian gp featuring:

1. lewis sabatoging fernando by exiting the pits first thus taking the optimum fuel strategy that was supose to be fernando's. (details: basically at the time the amount of fuel you started with in q3 would be how much you started the race with so drivers would do a set number of fuel burning laps to achieve optimum times, however drivers can't be on the same fiel strategy as that would require double stacking during the race so mclaren alternated which driver had the optimum strategy. mclaren policy was to give drivers the same fuel load and give one the advantage by letting them out first thus giving them more fuel burn laps and a lighter fuel load for their fast lap. Hungary was suppse to be fernando's turn however lewis disobeyed team orders and left the pits ahead of fernando)

2. fernando getting back at lewis by holding up his pit stop so he couldn't set his final quali lap

3.fernando getting a 5 place grid penelty then trying to BLACKMAIL ron denis into sabatoging lewis' race by threatening to expose spygate emails, specifically he wanted mclaren to cause lewis to run out of fuel mid race

4.ron denis tries to stop fernando from driving in the race entirely and calls the fia presidant max mosley telling him what happened, mosley then tells ron denis not to pull fernando from the race

5.after the race mosley launched a second spygate investigation and demanded access to all of mclaren's emails BUT this was not because ron dennis called him as he already knew about the spygate emails cause fernando told flavio briatore (crashgate guy. also why am i not suprised) who told bernie eccelstein who told mosley

6.also lewis lead every single lap of the race (sorry nando karma's a bitch)

anyways these guys were actually feral teammates and bald lewis may have been a little evil

tldr: lewis sabatoged nando so nando sabatoged him back but then was punished for it so he tried to blackmail ron dennis into sabatoging lewis which almost got him pulled from the race

ttldr: nando tried to blackmail ron denis during the 2007 hungarian gp

source is this bbc article

[istanbulgp2006]

ok so TELL ME WHY, a turkish Alonso fan page I follow just dropped one of the wildest claims about the spygate scandal.

So according to Antonio Lobato, Norbert Haug from Mercedes (Mclarens Engine supplier and also back when Merc wasnt a team itself it was Mclaren-Mercedes) locked Alonso in a room in Turkey and threatened him saying“You think about what you do,if the messages get leaked its very easy to make the engine 0.3 seconds slower.” and Lobato says that I’m not saying this was like this but at the end of the year Alonso’s car was failing.

GIRL WHAT?!?!? 😭😭😭😭

[kiwiwithnocroissants]

I wrote an article explaining the entire story of Spygate cause I think everyone needs to know about F1s biggest scandal ever like this was intense

Let me know your thoughts !!

The Spygate Breakdown: F1's Biggest Scandal Explained

one of formula one's biggest controversies explained simply.

[us-cj]

US is actively engaged in a war within CONUS. A foreign backed coup is targeting America. Listen to General Michael Flynn explain

[jubileesstuff]

I need an autobiography from Fernando. I want to know some of his secrets. Like, did he really not know about Crashgate? (Can't imagine that he didn't knew what was going to happen) And of course about all the other dirty secrets that he definitely knows. That man has probably so much blackmail material.

[brawngp2009]

Ron Dennis, Pedro de la Rosa and Lewis Hamilton at the FIA Spygate hearing, 26 July 2007.