In my last piece, I dared to speak against Ferrari and the result was predictable. I got the anonymous abusive mail, and as for some of the others, you will get more sense from talking to a Jehovah's Witness.

Microsoft is missing a trick. There should be a program which recreates illiterate rants in block capitals in purple crayon. Crayon because they are not allowed near sharp objects.

Not to look at Ferrari through rose-tinted glasses is like telling someone that their baby is ugly even though it has two heads. A typical line they take is 'we all know that that team orders occur.' In fact, we do not know. We may suspect and, let's face it, Formula One has been involved in so many dodgy moves that anyone can be forgiven for being suspicious.

Suspicion is not the same as fact and therefore it cannot be entered as part of an argument. Red Bull was among the teams fingered, strange then that Webber and Vettel collided while contesting the lead in Turkey. The tifosi live in a little world of their own. It is not connected to reality. They probably believe that the Tele-Tubbies are real people.

Some people thought that Ferrari's mistake was to get caught, and their point would be...? If you are arraigned on a murder rap, it is no defence to say that there are unsolved crimes. Oi, that Jack the Ripper has never been brought to book.

Believe me, you have never known idiocy until you have dared to question Ferrari or to even mention that it has actually been fined to the limit of stewards' power after Hockenheim. What bothers me is that these people are allowed to vote and reproduce. They move among us and some look normal, sort of.

The British scandal sheet, The News of The World, has conducted a sting operation. Readers outside of the UK may care to be reminded that it was the News of the Screws which entrapped Max Mosley. Max was entrapped and has won damages against the rag for invasion of privacy in a landmark case.

The Screws's sting followed the exact pattern that I suggested in my last piece and that, in turn, came from a PhD thesis to which I had prior access. The author, Declan Hill, received his doctorate, from Oxford, and his thesis has been published as 'The Fix: Soccer and Organised Crime'.

You might like to consider why I, of all the motoring hacks in the world, was given access to an Oxford D.Phil thesis under construction. I might be doing something right, not popular, but right.

Declan's book is recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the corruption of sport. Note, 'Organised Crime' in the title, this is something that should give pause for thought.

Organised crime means getting your children, and your grandchildren, hooked on crack cocaine and selling the girls into slavery. It is not just about having a flutter on a horse.

The sting involved a cricket match between England and Pakistan. For a fee of £150,000, undercover reporters, it is alleged, were given prior information about three no balls delivered in a game. Remember, I said that betting syndicates did not necessarily bet on overall results. In fact, I suggested it could be a mechanic fumbling a wheel change so that one backmarker got by another backmarker.

Dr. Anton Zimmerman, a contributor to Pitpass, and a pal, says most of us bet on wins, but this is betting on failure and that is where real corruption begins. You cannot pay someone to win, but you can pay someone to lose.