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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
Regardless, I think he is a significant chance for some sort of payout, even if it's just to drop the lawsuit, because reality is when Renault directed Piquet to crash to bring Alonso back into contention it was deliberate. None of that can be debated because they have all since confessed, and it looks like in old age Eccelstone has disclosed they knew that at the time not just retrospectively.

Whether it was in or out of the rules of the time might be debated, deliberately crashing into barriers wasn't explicitly written in at that time as far as I know, but the FIA banned the Renault people so it must have thought it was crook.

So if Wayne Harmes said, yep, 100% the ball was out. Do we owe something to Collingwood? If the (then) VFL officials said, we knew it was out, and didn't say anything, do we hand them the flag?

I remember the GP, i remember Martin Brundle at the time saying that is a VERY UNUSUAL place for someone to crash and it doesn't make sense. He called it live.
With the amount of telemetry they have available, ,it doesn't take much for them to work out the excess throttle, or steering was applied on that lap and none other before it, causing the 'accident'. So knowing about it, is one thing. Being against the rules is another.

In the last race, every man and his dog knew that Magnussen was backing up cars behind him so that Hulkenberg could get a pit-stop gap between him and everyone else.

It worked. Haas got their point. Everyone else sooked it up behind. It is not against the rules. So it stands.

Deliberately crashing is not against the rules. So whatever happens from there is irrelevent.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
I reckon Owies made the 22 on the basis of history/credits; 1.5 goals per game is a decent return as Surfie pointed out.  However, he was poor on Friday night and Fantasia wasn't much better; 12 effective disposals and two tackles between them isn't good enough.  The latter made two excellent passes for goals at critical times and that elevated his performance to a pass ... just!

Its the nature of the position to be in and out of games, weeks at a time.

I think he was underdone.
I think he underperformed.
I think he still deserves another week.