Mass Distraction: Interview with Pat Symonds
No one in the F1 One paddock advocated the legality of mass dampers as passionately as Renault's director of engineering Pat Symonds. However, since the FIA's Court of Appeal ruled the device illegal, Symonds and his peers at Renault have maintained media silence. Now, for the first time, Symonds talks to autosport.com's Jonathan Noble about the whole affair, his reaction to the verdict, and how Renault plan to bounce back with a vengeance
Ataturk Airport, Istanbul. It is probably the last place in the world that anyone would have expected a significant chapter in the 2006 Formula One World Championship to be played out.
As the flights ferrying Formula One personnel unloaded last Wednesday afternoon, shifting their excited cargo on to immigration, everyone was desperately phoning back to base to hear if the verdict from the FIA's Court of Appeal Court on mass dampers had been forthcoming
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