Formula 1 USGP watching again at the flying pig

[Trevor Legate]

Michelin put its hands up and admitted it had a manufacturing problem. The fix was either a chicane to avoid another car slamming into that wretched wall (they dont race against walls anywhere else.....wonder why? Did you see the Toyota hit that thing?) OR to ship over a new batch of tyres. But the FIA sat back and did nothing. For that read: Bernie Ecclestone/Ferrari. He controls the sport and has made a very close pact with the self-absorbed Italian team (who carry on Enzo's legacy of looking after no.1). So although he could have solved the problem by making a sensible decsion BUT that would have upset the Bridgestone runners - sorry, I meant Ferrari.
This has been coming for many years due to the egos involved and underlines why I have not bothered to attend a GP since about 1990ish, when it stopped being a sport and turned itself into a huge money-generating business (B.E. again...)
Dont know what you saw on US TV but the drivers that were interviewed for UK TV were pretty upset. At the end of the day, they only want to race - but would you put your life on the line just for the one race?
If the 'sport' (B.E.) had any decency ( it does not) it would refund all the publics money since it can afford it. It (B.E.) has bled the business dry but has never, and will never, put anything back into it, since the delightful B.E. has already gone on record as stating that the spectators are just a pain in the backside as its the TV viewers he is concerned about. So I voted with my feet and stayed away. Went to watch true enthusiasts racing their own cars in Historic racing. Remember this is the same guy that moved the British GP from July to April knowing full well that it would be a disaster as the car parks around Silverstone are grass and Boy does it rain there in April...!! So he throws a hissy-fit saying that the organisers dont deserve a GP since the car parks were a shambles as everyone got stuck and he used that to try to get out of the long-term contract!!
Its a tragedy but IMHO F1 died about 15 years ago - the corpse keeps twitching and it aint a pretty sight.