Another nail in F1's coffin

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Originally Posted by lynx

Even so, we are still going to blame the French tyre makers. :shifty:

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How convenient for the FIA. Every decision they've taken in the past ten years has proved piss-poor and yet they still don't get the message.


And maybe French tires are bad but we know how to spell the actual word, you mod.

Michelin came up with a suggestion which they knew would not be acceptable, and when the obvious happened they used that as an excuse to blame the FIA. It seems they learnt that lesson from Chirac.

There's only one guilty party, and that's the people who brought the wrong tyres. Bridgestone had an alternative, faster tyre, but they didn't bring it because of the potential problem like they had at Barcelona. I don't remember the Michelin teams suggesting they should make things easier for Bridgestone at Barcelona.

And I'm quite aware how to spell tyre, it is an English word, not some strange American variant. :P

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Originally Posted by Sara

...and as for Bernie Ecclestone.....what a jumped up nob...his wife is clearly there for the money, she is tall and beautiful and he is short and ugly. (miaow....sorry guys...felt like having a bit of a bitch as he is spoiling F1 for his own petty purposes, nothing to do with racing)

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I'm amazed you appear to have just realised this!
Those of us that can remember Jackie Stewart behind the wheel have known about it for aeons.

Formual 1 is dead in the USA. So feck it was never alive.

It does well enough elsewhere in the world to probably survive. The American audience seems to prefer oval racing anyway, so F1 was fighting a losing battle. I can see why they would want to open the market, it's huge, but they can survive without it.

From what I can see there are no shortage of countries who want to hold a race, no shortage of sponsors who want to be involved and no shortage of manufacturers who want to compete.

I think F1 will survive this debacle (is that the proper spelling, Guillaume)

F1 > NASCAR

I can't stand oval racing. :snooty:

Would have been still funnier with just the 2 cars racing though...













I'll get me coat

The FIA have decided that it's the teams fault and, accordingly, charged them with bringing F1 into disrepute.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/4631523.stm

Seems a tad harsh but it's far to boring a sport for me to waste much thought on.