… or rough justice?<\/p>\n
Sir,<\/p>\n
I have had time to read the analyses in the weekly specialist press and the national newspapers, and have replayed my video of the incident countless times. While I can see that, at first glance, Eddie Irvine appears to be 100 per cent culpable for the accident that provoked so much comment in Brazil, I wonder how many members of the FIA tribunal have ever been faced with a suddenly slowing object directly in front of them whilst travelling at around 200 mph?<\/p>\n
A few years ago, it was mooted that former drivers should play a part whenever disciplinary action needed to be taken, yet I am not aware that there are any Stewarts, Brabhams, Rosbergs or even Prosts assisting the FIA in such matters. A lot of Irvine’s post-race comments seemed credible to me. I wonder whether the FIA is qualified to judge a driver’s evidence first-hand? It seems to me that his punishment was based on cumulative evidence, carried over from Suzuka. If that’s the case, the FIA should come clean and say so. I don’t recall any of the other drivers screaming for Irvine’s incarceration in the immediate aftermath. Could it be that they understood the situation better than those casting judgement? Chris Thorpe, Davenham,<\/p>\n
Cheshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[35129],"issue_decade":[121596],"issue_year":[121660],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/25805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/25805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252108,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/25805\/revisions\/252108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=25805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}