2005 French Grand Prix Friday Practice 1
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired
FIA: Michelin are responsible.
The seven Michelin teams may have been found guilty of two charges of bringing Formula One into disrepute, but FIA president Max Mosley has made it quite clear who he feels is responsible for the United States Grand Prix fiasco.
Speaking to the press after the announcement was made of the charges, Mosley said the blame for the situation lay firmly at the feet of tyre supplier Michelin although the FIA was powerless to impose a penalty on the French company.
"They are not the scapegoats," Mosley said. "They are responsible. They admitted themselves that they are responsible. They have not denied that they turned up at Indianapolis with the wrong tyres and because they got the wrong tyres their teams could not race on the circuit they had agreed to race on, and to try to describe them as a scapegoat would completely go against the English language, it is simply not true.
"They were responsible for what happened and the teams technically share the responsibility in that it is up to them to get the right equipment and to have the right contracts with their suppliers, which arguably they failed to do. But this is a completely new element in Formula One, we have never had anything like this before, and as you noticed the second part of the thing that is outstanding until September is what they intend to do to make sure it never happens again, and the sort of thing you could imagine is that they have clear terms in their contracts, for example with a tyre company, requiring that company to bring a tyre that would be safe in all circumstances, even if it is not quick.
"We can't impose a penalty on Michelin because they have no more relationship with us than any other team supplier, we just don't have any power over them in that sense. We are able to indirectly put pressure on them through their teams and this is one of the things we are doing at the moment."
Source: Crash.net
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired
Code:
35 Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes 1:14.778
5 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:15.183
6 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:15.255
4 Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 1:15.530
9 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.877
3 Jenson Button BAR-Honda 1:16.038
38 Olivier Panis Toyota 1:16.146
10 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.366
17 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:16.731
8 Nick Heidfeld Williams-BMW 1:16.758
1 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:16.838
14 David Coulthard Red Bull Racing 1:17.168
15 Christian Klien Red Bull Racing 1:17.343
2 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1:17.389
7 Mark Webber Williams-BMW 1:17.451
12 Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 1:17.777
11 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas 1:18.192
37 Vitantonio Liuzzi Red Bull Racing 1:18.876
39 Robert Doornbos Jordan-Toyota 1:19.001
19 Narain Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota 1:20.067
21 Christijan Albers Minardi-Cosworth 1:20.382
20 Patrick Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth 1:20.725
18 Tiago Monteiro Jordan-Toyota 1:21.725
16 Jarno Trulli ToyotaFIA: Michelin are responsible.
The seven Michelin teams may have been found guilty of two charges of bringing Formula One into disrepute, but FIA president Max Mosley has made it quite clear who he feels is responsible for the United States Grand Prix fiasco.
Speaking to the press after the announcement was made of the charges, Mosley said the blame for the situation lay firmly at the feet of tyre supplier Michelin although the FIA was powerless to impose a penalty on the French company.
"They are not the scapegoats," Mosley said. "They are responsible. They admitted themselves that they are responsible. They have not denied that they turned up at Indianapolis with the wrong tyres and because they got the wrong tyres their teams could not race on the circuit they had agreed to race on, and to try to describe them as a scapegoat would completely go against the English language, it is simply not true.
"They were responsible for what happened and the teams technically share the responsibility in that it is up to them to get the right equipment and to have the right contracts with their suppliers, which arguably they failed to do. But this is a completely new element in Formula One, we have never had anything like this before, and as you noticed the second part of the thing that is outstanding until September is what they intend to do to make sure it never happens again, and the sort of thing you could imagine is that they have clear terms in their contracts, for example with a tyre company, requiring that company to bring a tyre that would be safe in all circumstances, even if it is not quick.
"We can't impose a penalty on Michelin because they have no more relationship with us than any other team supplier, we just don't have any power over them in that sense. We are able to indirectly put pressure on them through their teams and this is one of the things we are doing at the moment."
Source: Crash.net
