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Why would Bernie tell Marca that McLaren screwed up by taking a neutal posture in last seasons wdc? I don't want to get into all the partculars of the last three races, but Fred was fighting for his 3rd wdc. That part is over!
Now Bernie has got to start spewing on McLaren.
What a D!(k:

Bernie blames team for Lewis' lost chance

February 1, 2008

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Bernie Ecclestone believes McLaren cost its driver Lewis Hamilton the 2007 Formula 1 championship.

The F1 chief executive said in a Spanish newspaper, Marca, that the British team's neutrality toward its drivers kept Lewis from becoming the first rookie champion
'The team let him down' - Ecclestone
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"Lewis could have won - the team let him down," 80-year-old Ecclestone said.

He added that it was better that Fernando Alonso returned to Renault after a disappointing year with McLaren "because the truth is that he wasn't happy where he was".

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen won the 2007 Drivers' championship by one point from Hamilton and Alonso. - Sapa-AP