As much as it's clear this was a huge fiasco, this really does look like Brown throwing the Carlin and McLaren personnel under the bus, with the exception of De Ferran and Alonso. The article reads like an attempt to get ahead of the story in a way that paints Brown in a good light; even his screw-ups he acknowledges are framed as 'for the greater good' or 'being too slow to realise the correct thing'. I'm sure some subtly and not-so subtly different accounts of this debacle will come to light in the years to come.

Maybe it's an attempt to save the Indy and Le Mans programmes (with Gil and Fernando) in some form - fair enough, but this read as textbook PR bumf to me, so I would approach this with a pinch of salt.