Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"Without a blink, Ron would lose a title rather than cheat"
'A victory for common sense' is one of the more irritating of modern political cliches, up there with 'Let's be clear'.
But I can think of no more accurate phrase to describe the outcome of last Thursday's meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris, at which the members concluded unanimously that there was no clear evidence that McLaren, as a team, had benefited from confidential Ferrari information in the possession of one of its employees, chief designer Mike Coughlan.
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