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Tony Fernandes in Formula 1 cheating scandal

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  1. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    Looks like our owner is in the brown stuff without a paddle.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...aterham-new-F1-spy-row.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

    Can't copy the content at the moment but his Caterham F1 team are being accused of stealing intellectual rights from a rival.

    What is it with F1 cheats and owners of QPR?!!!

    Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the club? If he is booted out of F1 would TF then be more willing to spend his cash on us? It never rains but it pours in W12.
     
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  2. Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction

    Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction Well-Known Member

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    This bears striking similarities to the Arrows/Shadow dispute whereby the designer of the Shadow car left to join the newly formed Arrows and the resultant car was almost a carbon copy
     
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  3. QPR999

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    Surely this is like AFC Wimbledon stealing Man U's gameplan and trying to implement it. At the end of the day, they're still ****.
     
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  4. Dave Thomas

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    TF believe me lads is not what we may think he is ... I state again QPR is a face for him ... end of
     
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  5. FFS.73

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    I follow F1 and this has been bubbling away for weeks. But I don't think TF is to blame - essentially a supplier 'inadvertently' used designs they had done for Force India for Caterham as well - without Caterhams knowledge. They fessed up and were fined. It hasn't done Caterham any good, they are still only top of the bottom league of three.
    Trust the Fail to over dramatise.
     
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  6. BrixtonR

    BrixtonR Well-Known Member

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    Verdict: Tony therefore NOT GUILTY. Hardly Briatore is he? Leave the guy alone ffs.
     
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  7. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    Top of the Bottom League of three?...

    Sounds familiar?...<doh>
     
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  8. KooPeeArr

    KooPeeArr Well-Known Member

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    Lol.

    Incidentally, can we pinch AFC Wimbledon's gameplan?

    Even better, can we get Nelson Piquet Jr on the books.5 mins before half time, we could instruct him to leave the bench and run up the touchline before diving head first into an advertising hoarding. Meanwhile the team coolly capitalise on the diversion and put the ball in the net.
     
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  9. Flyer

    Flyer Well-Known Member

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    The Daily failed once again, Caterham were not guilty, the 3rd party company were.

    In F1, everyone cheats. Its always been that way. Mind you Flav took the biscuit with a deliberate crash.
     
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  10. Vale_Hoops

    Vale_Hoops Well-Known Member

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    Trend spotter :)
     
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  11. Azmi

    Azmi Well-Known Member

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    No offence meant to anyone from there but what the hell was TF thinking when he named the cars after an rundown suburb of Croydon?

    First that and then Mark Hughes... I'm losing faith in this guy's judgement.
     
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  12. Flyer

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    He owns Caterham cars so its makes sense. Free advertising.
     
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  13. CroydonCaptainJack

    CroydonCaptainJack Well-Known Member

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    Parts of Caterham are extremely wealthy and it was home to the Caterham 7 kit cars. Calling it a rundown suburb of Croydon is harsh mate
     
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  14. RicardoHCAFC

    RicardoHCAFC Well-Known Member
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    They haven't just failed, they've failed several days after the event:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17471815

    It's not even like the 3rd party were sued and it opens the possibility of suing Caterham, the court explicitly said that Caterham weren't guilty of anything.
     
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  15. BrixtonR

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    Always thought Caterham Cars was a minicab office...
     
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  16. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    would they be in competition to your firm
     
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