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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!andyw
- From: andyw@meaddata.com (Andy Welter)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
- Subject: Re: William / FISA mess
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:11:46 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- Message-ID: <1k90k2INNa76@meaddata.meaddata.com>
- References: <1993Jan26.184530.19899@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- In article 19899@e2big.mko.dec.com, winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
- >
- >In article <1k1comINNcu3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
- >cg894@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian Lee Wilson) writes:
- >|>
- >|>Has anyone considered the possibility of FISA conveniently
- >|>misplacing the Williams application? I just cannot believe that
- >|>a multi-million dollar a year GP team would even come close
- >|>to 'forgetting' to apply for the '93 championship!
- >
- >Never ascribe to cleverness what can be explained by stupidity or
- >incompetence. Frank Williams probably told some secretary or other flunky
- >to FAX the application to FISA, and they read one column over on the phone
- >number list and dialed the FAX number for FOCA, instead. Or they misunderstood
- >and sent it to the wrong place.
- >
- >What surprises me is that a team would leave something as important as their
- >F1 application until the very last minute. I'd have sent mine in early.
- >
- >--PSW
-
- Didn't this same sort of thing happen with an F1 team last year? Or am
- I just confused?
-
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