I promised you a story about the secret test Mercedes-Pirelli.
So, here I am.
The Rubber Bridge, two.
A surprise me was not the test itself. Know enough about the environment of F1. I know what he's capable Ross Brawn. I know that Charlie Whiting, the technical manager of the International Federation, has always been very close to Bernie Ecclestone. Which Ecclestone has a close relationship with Paul Hembery, Pirelli's the great Oliver Hardy. I should add that it is not a mystery father's interest in the future of Tamara Daimler Benz F1: it was precisely the father of Tamara to 'drive' the entry of Wolff and Lauda in the stable, an operation preparatory to a possible sale of the team to investitoti private, along the lines of what happened to the former Lotus Renault today.
Ergo, no wonder. It 'been a backroom maneuvering, with clear objectives, a functional overall design. Jean Todt has been put in the middle and it is definitely sull'incazzato, partly because from Maranello his former employer, aka LCDM, made him not just a phone ... affectionate.
But the real intriguing aspect of the smelly thing, in my opinion, is another.
Let me explain.
We live, thanks to you Cloggari, in a world in which, among social networks and tweets and satellite channels, and blah blah blah, just that Obama face a yawn and time two minutes knows the swine housed in a jay Uzbekistan. And these, I mean Mercedes, make a test with Rosberg and Hamilton on the track and for days no one knows nada?
It 's fascinating, really.
So, here's how things would turn out, according to sources not quotable.
1) On the Sunday evening of the Spanish GP Mercedes team behaves like all teams. Fills transporters of each material and I salute you and I, that is, the trucks are returning to the natural destination, in this case Brackley, England.
2) So allayed suspicions, transporters Mercedes changing road and settle down on the Costa Brava, an hour's drive from Montemelo.
3) There, as any tourists, enjoying the mechanics and engineers, because to get the test team from Britain would entail excessive risk (of being caught).
4) There is however the problem of the circuit. The laws, including Spanish, require that for any performance on the track are present not only the employees to the circuit, but also an ambulance and a helicopter for emergency relief.
5) From Stuttgart plant operators of Montmelo make an offer you can not refuse. Triple fee for the rental of the circuit, but the staff is affectionately sent on vacation (paid even that). Security measures shall directly Mercedes, with its health workers and so forth.
6) Armored structure, a car transporter comes completely white, no sign of any kind, on which the vehicle is being loaded 2013. Only at that point the car transporter 'official' back home.
7) Hamilton and Rosberg are summoned by mail, with the request not to bring the suit to work, least of all the helmets personal. Guide with liveries absolutely anonymous, so if someone going from Montmelo hear the sound of a F1 would think, I know, for a commercial.
According to rumors, the curious exhibition was also attended ... Michael Schumacher, kindly invited by Ross Brawn. If both went to the track or not, we do not know.
9) The Pirelli has complied with the code of secrecy that has surrounded the entire operation.
10) The donkey fell in Monte Carlo, when someone is asked on what grounds both Rosberg and Hamilton declare, at every turn, to be fiduciosissimi for Gp, having, according to them, Mercedes solved the trouble of suspension which involved the frightening wear pneumatic found to Barcelona.
11) There were people who put two and two, and so on Sunday morning in Monaco, to avoid being unmasked, Mercedes more Pirelli most Whiting have packed version, already prepared and in itself can not be appealed, the exchange of letters between supplier tires, teams and the FIA about the test.
12) Red Bull and Ferrari have had hysterics and asked what he knew Todt.
13) Todt knew only half, or nearly so, and the matter was understood to be finished in a sea of colored matter, similar to chocolate.
As for the developments 'legal', we'll see ..
