Where are the F1 team bosses on crashgate?
Ari Vatanen? Jean Todt? Do these guys have duct tape over their mouths? This is the perfect soapbox opportunity, but they don’t want to step on toes. Especially Todt, who has has many bodies in the closet regarding his F1 past with Ferrari. No need to open up a can of worms, and that’s understandable. Everyone is just trying to distance themselves from angry Renault corporate robots and the butthurt Piquet family.
Secondly, Hans Stuck is a retard. “If Mercedes must pay 100 million euros for the lying affair, then Renault should have to pay 500 million for this,” he told the German newspaper Bild. Yeah right. That fine was over two years. So 50 million euros per year. McLaren’s budget for the 2008 season was 294 million euros. So the penalty was only 17% of McLaren’s budget for that year. If they want to go to 40 million euro caps for 2010, and that 500 million euro fine can be paid over two years, that’s still 625% of their budget. Have to close the plant. Jobs lost. And Renault’s employee suicide rate skyrockets. At least some wouldn’t be in France this time. That’s not so bad now, is it?
On British BBC radio, ex-Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine said cheating was common in his day and urged the World Motor Sport Council not to go overboard and push out an important team. Just goes to show that when big money is involved in this sport in the wrong ways, by greedy people, it results in three things:
- Crap technical regulations dumbing the cars down with increased development in the wrong area forcing the laws of physics to kill the sporting side of driving fast automobiles.
- Rigged results, through favors and bribes of all kinds. “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” The backroom deals we never hear about.
- Chopped up rules only to try to drum up tv ratings and money for F1. There is no sporting logic behind the rule changes we’ve gone through, since 1998.
What this stabs in the heart most is the tifosi. Makes you question ALL 7 of his championships. How much advantage was gained from those backroom deals that created the dominance of Ferrari that created a string of championships for Schumi? That dominance is what lead to further rule changes, is the ironic part here.
It’s almost like there’s an underground war that we don’t even know about. Almost a ghost, or even parallel sport of politics that is invisible to everyone that hasn’t asked Flavio Briatore about his favorite Heidi Klum story.
What we’re witnessing right now is the downfall of our sport. It’s just going through a cleansing processes right now. It will never be perfect. But it never has been. Hopefully the rebirth won’t last too many seasons.
Fixed results have happened. We’re not talking Austria 2001 and 2002 with team orders. We’re talking multi-team orders. Probably with money involved. All this trouble partially caused by the Concorde Agreement, we can all conclude.
