Innovator or cheater?

The International court of appeal have ruled that the diffusers installed in Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams cars comply with the regulations and thus, allowing the three teams to keep the points scored in the past two races. It has been an interesting season this year for F1 especially when strong teams like Ferrari and McLaren Mercedes were shockingly slow in the speed as compared to Brawn, Toyota and Williams due to the disputed design on the diffuser. Those buggers in Ferrari and McLaren simply cannot accept that their cars are not competitive enough as compared to the “backbenchers”.

Then, they started to question the legality of their opponents’ cars not complying with the regulations and try to have the points earned by Brawn and the rest striped off. They failed ultimately when the court of appeal ruled in favour of the innovation made on the diffuser by Brawn, Toyota and Williams. As Brawn said earlier, Formula 1 is all about innovative designs, who ever master the technology will step up the podiums. It looks like Ferrari and Cos simply could not stomach the fact that their weaker opponents have outperformed them in terms of innovations. That is quite common, isn’t it? A person or a team or a political party or any organization with long supremacy in their own realm will not accept open-heartedly the defeats to the weaker opponents, especially when they are financially much stronger than their opponents. I supposed such thing also happened in our own backyard, look at the court case going on in the legality of Perak state government.

In any sorts of competition, be it sports, elections, games or whatever, when you win, you shall win humbly, when you lose, you lose with dignity. Then, there will be mutual respect among the competing members and that is what sporting is all about.