It would not be adequate to only penalise Ferrari at next month’s World Motor Sport Council disciplinary hearing.<\/p>\n
That is the opinion of Max Mosley, ahead of the September 8 meeting that was called to assess the Italian team’s allegedly illegal use of team orders during the German grand prix.<\/p>\n
With Ferrari already handed a $100,000 fine by the Hockenheim stewards, it is suggested that a satisfactory outcome might be a further sporting sanction but one that allows drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso to keep their championship points.<\/p>\n
Former long-time FIA president Mosley, however, disagrees, “because the drivers understood the rules when they were given their FIA super licenses but in Hockenheim (the drivers) failed to uphold them”.<\/p>\n
“I’m sorry particularly for poor Felipe Massa,” added Mosley in an interview with Welt am Sonntag newspaper, “but there is a rule strictly against team orders.”<\/p>\n
The 70-year-old Briton said Brazilian Massa cannot argue that he was only obeying an instruction from his team “because his employer had no right to invite him to break the rules”.<\/p>\n
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