The Weekly Grapevine
The FIA's decision last week, which found Renault guilty of fraudulent conduct but left the team unpunished - just three months after McLaren received the biggest penalty in the sport's history for a similar infraction - left many enraged and critical. Dieter Rencken analyses the reality and perception of the affair
A Matter of Perception
"It is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance, that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done." - Lord Hewart, Britain's Lord Chief Justice, 1922-40.
Perception and reality can be one and the same thing; equally, they can be poles apart. One thing, though, remains certain: to the human mind, that which is perceived, is deemed to be reality until categorically disproven. The same dictum holds true in the dispensing of justice: not only must it be done (reality), but it must also be seen to be done (perception).
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