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LONDON: The world of satirical motoring websites was rocked this week after Sebastian Vettel's win in the wet at Monza marked the first Mclaren loss in over two years that could not be childishly blamed on a perceived Ferrari bias by the FIA.

"Normally whenever Mclaren lose there's a red car somewhere ahead of them, which makes it easy to claim that it's all a big conspiracy," said Sniff Petrol spokesperson Troy Queef, "however this time we're forced to say that Mclaren's loss is probably because someone else was faster than them."

Despite this obvious flaw the be-aviatored fictional motoring journalist was quick to point out that the website's editorial staff were frantically searching for any percieved Toro Rosso bias that they could possibly invent. "Think about it, Toro Rosso sounds a bit Italian, doesn't it?" Queef commented, "And 'Rosso' probably means 'red' or something. I don't think this one will take us too much time at all."

After Vettel's superb win the Toro Rosso team has been literally inundated with requests from Mclaren to let them steal the plans for last year's car, thus allowing their fans to wear an extra Toro Rosso hair shirt over the Ferrari one already firmly in place. At the post-race Mclaren press conference Ron Dennis told the media, "Anything we can do to avoid facing the fact that a British driver in a British car is just not very fast, we will do as a matter of priority."

Carcoat Damphands was said to be unavailable for comment.