Sorry Ferrari people, but I'm not a great fan. I haven't been for some years now. Don't get me wrong, I admire the history, love the passion of the fans and can only gasp with you at the aura of the Maranello magic. But in the recent past their passion to dabble in the dark arts of Formula One politics and the even darker arts of race fixing on the track have led me to fall out of love with the Prancing Horse.
What Ferrari engineered at Hockenheim last weekend was truly disgraceful. Team orders, which tell one driver to move out of the way for another, were banned in 2002 after another distasteful Ferrari stunt. You may recall Rubens Barrichello pulled over for Michael Schumacher to win in Austria just metres from the line.
Last weekend, Felipe Massa had picked the pocket of both Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel at the start to steal the lead and he battled hard to retain it until his engineer Rob Smedley came over the radio and said 'Fernando is faster than you. Can you confirm that you understand that message?' Massa knew well enough. He said nothing but let Alonso by shortly afterwards.
'Good lad, just stick with it now, sorry.' Smedley, as Massa's race engineer, seemed as uncomfortable with the decision as his driver. Ferrari's muted celebrations at the end of the race showed they knew they had pulled a cheap trick, and they knew that everyone else knew.
Team boss Stefano Domenicali, to his credit, fronted up to the paddock press straight away. It wasn't to his credit that he couldn't admit what had just gone on.
His friend and former team owner Eddie Jordan was happy to put him right: 'It was unlawful and it was theft. They stole from us the chance of having a wheel-to-wheel contest between the drivers. Ferrari should be ashamed.'
If the fans felt cheated by Ferrari's actions, think how Massa must have felt. He was robbed of victory a year to the day after he almost died when a stray spring hit his head during qualifying in Hungary.