Described herein is the famous “‘98 Montreal Incident” that happened on October 24th during the first day of the ‘98 Masters. The exact racing conditions won’t be described because they’re useless. The incident begins when player A, after a violent discussion with the other players of the table, asks for organization refereeing because player B is obviously trying to eliminate him. Here’s how the situation looks like.

• The 2 drivers (we’ll call them White and Yellow for purpose of the illustrated example) are coming into curve number 8 (2 stops, 11 squares max., 5 squares min.) at full speed, White in 3rd gear and Yellow in 6th gear.
• White, who was playing first, stops at the very end of the curve on the inside lane.
• Yellow, playing immediately after White, stops at the very end of the curve in the middle row.
• Stage 1 : the 2 drivers have only made one stop and they have no square left to go for their second stop. The other drivers play their turn.

• Stage 2 : Yellow being in front of White by half a square, he plays first. He spends 1 fuel, 1 brake and 1 engine to shift in 2nd gear. He rolls a 3 in 2nd gear and overshoots the curve on the left lane :

• Stage 3 : Yellow spends 2 brakes to go back 2 squares. That way he only overshoots by 1 square:

• So, White has no square left to go and is forced to pay 1 fuel, play in 1st gear and hope to roll a one, the result of the die is 2. White has obviously not enough brake points left and has to leave the race, crashing himself on Yellow’s rear end, who automatically lose 1 body point.
• It must be said that Yellow had enough tyres left to overshoot by 2 squares instead of 1. So his move is a deliberate try to eliminate White from the race.

Here’s my personal analysis, do what you like with it :

• Fair-play is a proof of savoir-vivre and intelligence. It comes from common sens, sens of honour and greatness of the soul. It has no strict or precise rules and can’t be written down.
• Yellow has, technically speaking, the right to play the way he did (in Formula One, nothing prevents a driver from braking of moving aside to eliminate an opponent). If he remains impervious to fair-play, the rule can’t forbid his move.
• Yellow keeps it up and thus shows proofs of a total lack of fair-play and exposes himselfs to sanctions that can be decided by:

1) the race referees (in the rule, all the players of a race are referees)
2) the tournament referees
 
• As his move cannot be forbidden, the sanction must be proportionnal :

1) Immediate expulsion from the race (after the victim has crashed) by vote, on the basis of the majority of the players (if the concerned player has a team partner, his partner can’t vote).
Or, 2) exclusion by the highests powers from the next Masters.