What a farce
It’s not like me to blog this much in one day, but I feel that I have to.
Although I’ve not been keeping in touch with F1 recently, upon visiting BBC News I decided to check the scores. What do I see? All but 6 cars have pulled out because the Michelin tyres are deemed to be unsafe, after Ralf Schumacher crashed.
Now, it appears that Ferrari have used this to their advantage, refusing to accept a deal that may have got the race going after all. One has to ask whether Ferrari have the best interests of the sport at hand, or if they’re just interested in winning Schumacher yet another medal so he can drool over his astounding brilliance.
Also, the FIA decided in their infinite wisdom that putting a chicane at the turn would disadvantage other drivers, because they’d brought proper equipment to the race and the other teams had not. Now, pardon me, but it’s not the fault of the teams if the fucking type company failed to perform proper QA on it. So, instead of accepting the deal, they bluntly said “no” and ignored everyone. How good of them.
Hey, guess what happened? Everyone left. Can you blame them - if I’d paid some extortionate fee to go to a race day, and nobody even bothered racing, then I’d bloody well leave as well. As well as bottles being thrown onto the track, amongst other assorted goodness.
To be honest, after Ferrari’s complete dominance of F1 I’ve complete lost any interest or respect for the sport. I used to be an avid viewer; now they’ll be lucky if I watch a single one. After this farcical “race” - and I even struggle to call it so - I shan’t be watching again.
The FIA just doesn’t seem to understand that they can’t do what they want. They have to listen to the viewers, because the viewers generate the revenue for their little endeavour. Unfortunately, I think they’re going to find this out the hard way.