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It's a dirty, dirty business in F1.

 
 
noinipo
 
Reply Sat 15 Sep, 2007 07:16 am
Here are some examples of businessmen who are corrupt and of others who are honest. I think it has to do with the way a person was brought up.
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It's a dirty, dirty business in F1.
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Sep 13, 2007
The first thing Ron Dennis should have done, when he found out his team was in possession of secret technical data belonging to Scuderia Ferrari, was call the police.
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If he'd done that back at the beginning of the summer, it's possible ?- quite likely, even ?- that Formula One wouldn't be in the mess it's in today.
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Industrial espionage ?- and this is what McLaren has been mixed up in ?- is serious business. Any person, company or corporation that plunges into such a quagmire does so at their peril and most people know it.
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A couple of summers ago, when two employees of Coca-Cola approached U.S. rival Pepsi-Cola and offered to sell it the formula for a new drink that Coke was developing, it took about a minute for Pepsi to call Coke.
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Coke, in turn, notified the FBI and those two now-former employees are serving eight and five years, respectively, for their crime.
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Here's another example.
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Many years ago, founding Toronto Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi was talking to a reporter and absent-mindedly left his briefcase behind when the conversation ended. The reporter took it back to his newspaper (not the Star) and went through it.
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The managing editor found out. Not only did he order the briefcase returned immediately, he fired the reporter from the baseball beat and forbid anyone at the newspaper from writing stories based on materials in what was, essentially, a stolen briefcase.
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That's how you handle those sorts of things.
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http://www.wheels.ca/article/31488
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baddog1
 
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Reply Mon 17 Sep, 2007 10:17 am
Re: It's a dirty, dirty business in F1.
noinipo wrote:
Here are some examples of businessmen who are corrupt and of others who are honest. I think it has to do with the way a person was brought up.
......................................
It's a dirty, dirty business in F1.
.
Sep 13, 2007
The first thing Ron Dennis should have done, when he found out his team was in possession of secret technical data belonging to Scuderia Ferrari, was call the police.
.
If he'd done that back at the beginning of the summer, it's possible ?- quite likely, even ?- that Formula One wouldn't be in the mess it's in today.
......
Industrial espionage ?- and this is what McLaren has been mixed up in ?- is serious business. Any person, company or corporation that plunges into such a quagmire does so at their peril and most people know it.
.
A couple of summers ago, when two employees of Coca-Cola approached U.S. rival Pepsi-Cola and offered to sell it the formula for a new drink that Coke was developing, it took about a minute for Pepsi to call Coke.
.
Coke, in turn, notified the FBI and those two now-former employees are serving eight and five years, respectively, for their crime.
.
Here's another example.
.
Many years ago, founding Toronto Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi was talking to a reporter and absent-mindedly left his briefcase behind when the conversation ended. The reporter took it back to his newspaper (not the Star) and went through it.
.
The managing editor found out. Not only did he order the briefcase returned immediately, he fired the reporter from the baseball beat and forbid anyone at the newspaper from writing stories based on materials in what was, essentially, a stolen briefcase.
.
That's how you handle those sorts of things.
.
http://www.wheels.ca/article/31488


The 'dirt' in F1 & FIA runs deep and long. This may be the tip of the iceberg in revelations of the organizations - depending on the swiftness and amount of hush-money involved.
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noinipo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Sep, 2007 11:46 pm
So sad to see corruption spread like pollution all over the world.
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