We know for a fact that members of the FIA do not read this column – certainly not without their lips moving – so what would appear common sense to any F1 fan has prevailed. PlanetF1
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Chicago deserved a No.
I am glad that Rio got the Olympics. Brazil is an emerging powerhouse, and South America has never received an Olympics before. Its about time.
Open Left:: We Didn’t Deserve The Olympics.
Given the reasons I don’t see how I could possibly disagree. Not that I did in the first place.
Headline of the day
Platini – not biased
Uefa president Michel Platini has told the BBC he is far from certain that England deserve to host the football World Cup in 2018. BBC
Well…… can’t possibly think why the frenchman would say that, but it’s got abso-bloody-lutely nothing to do with everything he said…….
(and in case you missed Hardtalk on News 24, he doesn’t mind racists. He won’t do anything about racists)
Alonso.
If I could find enough words to fit around the mass of abuse then I’d post about the Stupid Spaniard. How the hell no-one has given Fernando Alonso a damn good slapping is beyond me, it really is. I disliked Schumacher but Alonso has taken this to a whole new level. I hope McLaren keep him but don’t let him drive – after all, he’d not want to take any secrets eh?
Why is Jean Todt such a little shit?
Jean Todt admits that the Stepneygate scandal is sullying the good name of F1, but is adamant that the truth must come out. (and whose truth is that?)
When asked whether he felt that McLaren deserved to be excluded from the Championship, Todt explained that the Italian marque had no particular outcome in mind. (Really?)
Referring to the first hearing in July Todt said: “The decision [not to punish McLaren] was not appropriate. (But he had no outcome in mind…)
The CEO of Scuderia warned that legal action would continue even if the hearing exonerated McLaren.
“No, I mean really, for us it is something which is too important and we will move forward in Italy … and move on with the civil case in the UK as well.” (In other words he won’t accept anything BUT what he calls victory) (and that means he DOES have an outcome in mind)“It’s a taint on the sport. (says the squat one despite the fact that Ferrari and Schumacher cheated more and gave team orders when they were banned.)
From Jackie Stewart: “There are more Ferrari representatives on the World Council than anybody else, and it seems that some of the most powerful people in this sport are more aligned to Ferrari than anybody else.”
The head of Williams: “Sir Frank Williams believes the FIA have embarked on their quest in this saga with “enormous tenacity”.
and this piece of absolute bollocks from the top fool at Ferrari:
Luca di Montezemolo claims that Ferrari would be deserving Champions should McLaren be excluded from the title race.
What the other teams should do is what they did in Indianapolis – just let the red cars go.
planet-f1 (and many other sites. The rotund one isn’t liked by many right now..)
Ferrari cheat?
“Ferrari … finds it incomprehensible that violating the fundamental principle of sporting honesty does not have, as a logical and inevitable consequence, the application of a sanction,” the team statement said.
A google search for ‘ferrari cheating’ scores over 540,000 hits. McLaren cheating? A quarter of that number.
Seems they want their justice on their terms at the times they set these things up.
F1 might be watchable now
The conspiracy theorists are likely to have their say as Schumacher crucially suffered a puncture to the left-rear tyre on his Ferrari after being clipped by the front wing of Giancarlo Fisichella’s Renault.
Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn pointed an accusing finger at the Italian as he said: “I think he clipped Michael’s tyre as he went past him and screwed our race. (Planet F1)
Conspiracy? Hell no. Justice in some other form? Hell yes. I can’t be alone in thinking that F1 just got better. I’m partly surprised the stewards didn’t Black Flag every other car. It’s a polarity thing with that guy – and I’m definitely not at his party. Still, next season should be better… once DC gets that “This year the title is mine” nonsense out of the way. Again.
Breaking copyright
According to the information at http://www.football.co.uk I am not allowed to publish this news about 3 teams from cities I have lived in:
30 September 2006 15:00
Everton vs Manchester City Goodison Park
Manchester United vs Newcastle United (P) Old Trafford
because:
No part of the Fixtures Lists may be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of Football DataCo Limited.
So lads, no talking down the pub then.
What a STUPID copyright notice.
Dear Football DataCo Limited – Sue me.
Schumacher. Go. Please.
I really do hope that Schumacher does announce his retirement today. Then we can all be glad that when the FIA has screwed around and found every way possible to award everything to him and Ferrari then next year we might actually have a decent show.
This latest incident is indicative of just how much the FIA take it from Ferarri and then bend to the will of that Italian outfit. Every team that Schumacher has been in since Jordan has cheated – from the hidden launch controls to complaining about any other mod on any other car to knocking people off the track there are more and more events from the past, even wikipedia has a line or two about his tactics – so it really has to be in F1′s best interests for Svumacher to get out of a car and stay out of the car. Right now because of Ferrari and the slavish way the FIA want to let them win it all again and will make it so where humanly possible it’s a damn boring spectacle.
Alonso, who leads Schumacher by 12 points in the standings, said: “I am a sportsman, I love sport, I love the fans. I don’t consider Formula One anymore like a sport.”
Can’t argue with that.
After the race….
Michael Schumacher’s chances of retiring as an eight-time World Champion look better than ever after his commanding win from Ferrari successor Kimi Raikkonen at Sunday’s Italian GP.
Get real – the FIA will do everything they possibly can to give him the damn trophy. Which means cheating.