Full Circle

This hits the nail on the precise geometric centre of it's head, and saddens me all the more for it's precision........

From pitpass.com

While many, when observing the current row between the FOTA teams and the FIA, feel they've seen it all before, some are of the opinion that this time it's different. Last night we received an e-mail from a good friend of the Pitpass team, an F1 insider who has seen action with numerous teams at times when they employed the likes of Senna, Schumacher and Alonso. "I have to say, it feels to me like the trajectory of all this is leading irrevocably to a parting of the ways," he wrote. "Considering today's lengthy FIA release and having read that tetchy exchange of letters between the legal eagles, it's difficult to see where there might be any common ground between the feuding parties. "I wonder if there will be a British Grand Prix this weekend," he continues, "or indeed, whether the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship will run its full 17 rounds." With just a couple of days before the FIA's second deadline in as many weeks, and with the sport's governing body insisting that it will press ahead with the £40m budget cap in 2010, there are a growing number of fans and F1 insiders who feel, like our friend, that this time it's for real. How ironic therefore, that the fate of F1, as we know it, might be decided this weekend at Silverstone, the circuit which hosted the first ever round of the Formula One World Championship, way back in 1950, and which itself looks set to disappear off the F1 map. And as Ferrari prepares to head off along with the FOTA teams, let's not forget that it was at Silverstone in 1951 that Froilan Gonzalez scored the Maranello outfit's maiden Formula One Grand Prix victory. All things considered, maybe Silverstone is the ideal place for F1, as we know it, to be finally laid to rest.

I'm as keen as the next bloke to see Ferarri back at Le Mans, but this is no way to go about it. A case of irresistable greed meeting an imovable lust for power.

Regardless of the outcome, it seems Sunday will be the last time I hear the greatest noise in the world (now that Concorde's been uninvented), the sound of F1 cars through Copse corner.

Sad. Hard to image that F1 may have run its course. I was put off by the Indy this year, with all the cars having Honda engines. Before it was how mechanics could make their car slightly different to get that extra edge, now its just a cookie cutter car that is decided by which driver gets out in the top ten first.

Maybe it needs to die a terrible death to be resurrect anew?

And I awake this morning to see things have somehow gotten worse. My little blackened heart is breaking, F1 has been part of me since I was 3 or 4 years old.

the worst thing is, could this new series end up on ITV? I dont think I could cope with that.

The Teacher wrote: the worst thing is, could this new series end up on ITV? I dont think I could cope with that.

ARGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

On the plus side, Silverstone may remain (cos let's face it, it's a shite track in anything short of an F1 car).

Thought this was about Michael Palin. I stayed in the same 'hotel' as he did on the Bolivia border

couldn't all this f1 stuff be kept to the one therad, or have a warning may contain nuts type thing?

Yes, I forgot, yous Engerlish types are in no way interested in anythin you're actually good at. We'll talk about footie and cricket and rugby then instead, and anything else you can barely win the toss at :D

Must be cos you invented all the stuff you stink at, and the frogs invented car racing.

now now stephen, we didn't invent everything we stink at!

(& i remember watching f1 when alan jones won the championship, then when they had turbo's & normally aspirated cars, through to nigel & then damon winning, went off it in recent years due to lack of overtaking* these days - give me the bikes any day - there's some good racing there)

*on the track i mean, as opposed to in the pits