Ferrari: A Change of Heart
There are a few not very widely promoted suggestions that Ferrari’s win in Malaysia may have been one of those team order affairs. According to this story on Formula 1 Sport, Gary Anderson – a grand prix car designer – believes that Raikkonen being able to leapfrog Massa had been planned from the start.
Now, I don’t know who Gary Anderson is, whether he is a respected voice in the sport of not, but I can say I’m not a fan of this conspiracy theory. And I am a fan of a lot of conspiracy theories.
I believe that Kimi Raikkonen is just that good, and Massa is not. Given the evidence of previous GPs, this isn’t exactly a stretch to believe, is it?
The reason this story is getting my attention, however, is because when Stefano Domenicali was accepting his trophy on the Malaysian podium, I turned to “me” and said: “I don’t know when it happened, but I don’t feel the same animosity towards Ferrari. It doesn’t feel tainted.”
When I first started watching F1, and watching should be in quotes, because I couldn’t tell you a thing about it back then, it was Michael Schumacher this and Michael Schumacher that. Questionable wins here, dodgy tactics there.
