Bahrain GP Debate

[Brogan]

I think Pyrope's angry at the article MCLS, not you.

 

[MCLS]

Phew Can't say I don't blame him then

 

[Pyrope]

Not you, that statement. The sound of financial interests desperately trying to wriggle out of a situation they don't want to be in, but without having the courage to say so directly.

 

[Pyrope]

The FIAs report on Bahrain has been leaked.

Get it here: http://avaazpress.s3.amazonaws.com/FIA Bahrain report FULL.pdf

I smell a carefully choreographed whitewash. How convenient that there were a group of "young people" raising a petition for the return of the Grand Prix just at the time the FIA delegation visited the shopping centre (two hours after curfew, yet all was busy and normal... how odd). The big, honking lie in that document, that screams its dishonesty, is the claim that tourism numbers aren't just back to normal levels, but are actually higher now! As to the suggestion that the protesters make their point using the "correct democratic institutions"...

 

[Slyboogy]

That link doesn't work for me, the one that Brogan put up...anyone else getting that problem?

 

[FB]

Between FIFA and the FIA sports governing bodies are not exactly covering themselves in glory at the moment are they?

 

[Incubus]

Well they are certainly covering themselves in something...

 

[Brogan]

Latest...

Bernie Ecclestone tells me Bahrain GP CAN'T go ahead "of course it's not on - race can't be rescheduled without agreement of participants"

http://twitter.com/#!/danroan/status/78387658988060672

This has to be one of the most pathetic sagas in the history of F1, and that's saying something.

 

[Road of Bones]

Latest...

http://twitter.com/#!/danroan/status/78387658988060672

This has to be one of the most pathetic sagas in the history of F1, and that's saying something.

It does rather beggar the question why they tried to reschedule it in the first place, doesn't it?

I'd suggest that there are painty bootprints across the carpet now...

 

[FB]

Back in the 80's you could get a T shirt which read FISA + FOCA = FIASCO. Any one care to work on FIA, FOM and FOTA?

I'll start another thread...

 

[FB]

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/fisa-foca-fiasco.2898/#post-54936

Here its is.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Bernie expects it to be cancelled:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13694628.stm

 

[MCLS]

Talk about trying to cover his tracks........

 

[Speshal]

Bernie expects it to be cancelled:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13694628.stm

Ecclestone's assessment comes after 11 Formula 1 teams objected on Tuesday

11 Teams eh I wonder who could be the only ones prepared to race there

It's blatantly McLaren isn't it

 

[MCLS]

Maybe it's HRT? As they are not in FOTA

 

[Brogan]

The more pertinent question is why the teams/FOTA didn't make this clear at the meeting last week?

 

[sportsman]

How could the WMSC ever reached their decision, when it is clearly stated in regulations that they can only change the calender with full agreement of all teams.
The simple truth is that none of them, the FIA, FOTA and FOM ever expected the storm of criticism they recieved from the press, certainly the fans had a huge affect.
They WRONGLY expected the fans to numbly accept what they decided.
What a bloody farce.

 

[mjo]

To sum it up, I bet the 2011 Bahrain Grand Prix WILL NOT go ahead., despite the huge number of times that Bernie, the FIA and the teams have changed their minds more times than...err

 

[MCLS]

Does anyone else think that Ecclestones comments are an intentional swipe at the FIA and more particularly Todt?

 

[Road of Bones]

Does anyone else think that Ecclestones comments are an intentional swipe at the FIA and more particularly Todt?

Quite possibly - either that or (whisper it quietly) Bernie's going soft in his old age...