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Embarrasing.

I guess this is gonna be hot in the news. Aih..

An embarrasing farce of a race it was in Indianapolis. Seven out the ten teams pulled out of US GP. The result? Only six cars on the track. Pathetic.

The story goes like this: On friday, Michelin (the tiremaker for the seven teams) saw a problem with the tires at the track which ultimately caused Ralf Schumacher to crash. Michelin asked the FIA for replacement tires to be flown in for the teams, or at least, put up a makeshift chicane at a turn which is a high-speed bank.

FIA's response? They ruled out Michelin's request. Result? All seven teams running on Michelin tyres boycotted the race. All twenty cars finished the parade lap, and 14 cars pulled into the pits, leaving six cars on the starting grid.

What a farce, what an embarrasment.

This is gonna be big news in the next few days.

Racing fans left the racetrack disgusted and some were demanding refunds. Some even threw water bottles and beer cans onto the tracks. Aih.

What's my take on the sad race? It's a pity on the American racing fans. They looked forward for a great race, and all they got was this. The sport is gonna lose the American fans over this silly debacle.

The FIA did not think of the sport, and the fans of the sport. This is politics first and sports second, which was supposed to be another way. The image of F1 might be forever damaged by this decision.

If only the FIA agreed to put makeshift chicanes, this sad farce wouldn't have happened. Nine out of the ten teams wanted to put chicanes to control the speed. If only FIA let Michelin to bring new tyres, this wouldn't happen. Instead, the FIA overruled everything, and this upsets the teams, and ultimately, the fans.

The image of F1 will be tarnished.

Aih.

13 Comments:

  At Mon Jun 20, 03:30:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger he who must not be named said...

Ooh, this came as a suprise. Since when you were a fan of F1?
I thought you like "F4", better? ;)

Anyway, this is something I heard through the grapevine; some of the teams are planning to pull out from the F1 after the contract expired and start their own Grand Prix series.

Does this mean FIA screwed up, big time?

Only time will tell.

>> FIRST'd.

  At Mon Jun 20, 09:40:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger Lase said...

OMG of all people I lost to, it's ibanez. T____T

  At Mon Jun 20, 09:43:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger Lase said...

Just so you know, the chicane proposal needed to be signed by all 10 teams. All Michelin runner signed. Why should Bridgestone runners? Logically looking at it, I won't sign it as well if I'm a Bridgestone runner.

Oh, and FIA killed the sport when they put all those stupid rules just so Ferrari is not dominant. What is a pit stop where you can only choose to fuel OR change tyres? *rolls eyes*

  At Tue Jun 21, 10:49:00 AM GMT+8, Blogger Cherane said...

'___'
*blank*

  At Tue Jun 21, 07:44:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger Lase said...

*pats Pablo*

Not an F1 fan, ne? ;)

  At Wed Jun 22, 07:34:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger Cherane said...

Ok ok let me get this straight.

The problem is the tyre, right?
And because its faulty they couldn't race?
But there are othes who still race?
And that is still considered fair..how?

/serious thinking mode =_= hm...

  At Wed Jun 22, 11:37:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger Lase said...

There are 2 tyre companies - Michelin and Bridgestone. 3 teams are using Bridgestone while the remaining 7, Michelin. In this new circuit, there is a chicane (in a simpler term - corner) which causes problems to Michelin users. Bridgestone users don't face this problem though. So Michelin requested to FIA to either let them change the tyres or change the chicane part. Rules did not allow the change of tyres (rules to actually bring Ferrari down imho) so they can't do that actually. To cut it short, in the end, due to so called safety measures, Michelin requested all the teams to not participate so as not to have any accident (Ralf Schumacher was involved in one during the test drive iianm). So, the race started with 6 racers as the other 14 cars pulled out after the parade lap. :) Hope it explains things. ^^

  At Wed Jun 22, 11:42:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger Cherane said...

6 cars racing...hmmmm....doesn't sound fair to me...

  At Thu Jun 23, 07:08:00 PM GMT+8, Blogger he who must not be named said...

They shoulda opt for sime tyres, lol.

I dont like the Michelin's mascot, it looks awfully like marshmallow man. :P

  At Fri Jun 24, 08:42:00 AM GMT+8, Blogger Cherane said...

Marshmallow man from Ghostbuster?
Much cuter.

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