Driver's Title Tainted?

SO,

Ferrari team President Luca Di Montezemolo now believes that should Lewis win this years' championship (which he surely will), he will have the Italian team to thank.

LDM told Italian sports publication Gazzetta dello Sport:

"I still think that in the [Stepneygate] spying affair it was a big mistake not to disqualify the McLaren drivers as well.

"It means that if Hamilton wins the championship, he will also win it thanks to Ferrari because there is a lot of Ferrari in his car."

Rubbish.

McLaren were punished on September 13 following new evidence from Alonso and Pedro De la Rosa - involving emails and text messages to and from Mike Coughlan about the Ferrari car - on the grounds that they gained some sporting advantage over Ferrari.

But there was only circumstantial evidence to suggest that there were any parts on the McLaren influenced by Coughlan's Ferari documents.

So for Di Montezemolo to suggest this is frankly bullshit.

While his team may be happy to win the Constructor's title for 2007 in the courtroom, there is surely no way that the integrity of the McLaren Group would bend enough for them to use a bastardised Ferrari to win any championship.

Luca is clearly a bitter man. Schumi and Ross Brawn left at the end of '06 and since then their importance to the Italian's infrastructure has come to light, with this year's car suffering the kind of weaknesses that neither man would have encountered.

And now he is resorting to desperate snipes at a McLaren squad that few believe were guilty of plagiarising Ferrari parts, and even fewer believe would have lost either of this year's titles.

The car is superior and so are the drivers.

So sorry Luca, but if (when) the horrendously talented Lewis Hamilton wins this year's Drivers Championship, as far as most people would be concerned, he owes your lot bugger all.