CHEATING. It’s knowingly and deliberately breaking the rules in order to gain an advantage and taking steps to conceal what you are doing. There is a view in some parts of motor sport, even Formula 1, that cheating doesn’t matter as long as you don’t get caught. And, when someone does get caught, there’s always a group of apologists ready to excuse the team and claim that everyone does it so it doesn’t matter. The bigger the team, the louder the chorus will be.
A very unpleasant aspect of this is the pressure it puts on an honest competitor. If cheating is endemic, the honest competitor has either to start cheating too or endure constant defeat by unscrupulous rivals. This may seem obvious to someone from outside motor sport, but it…
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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 1, 2015