How Hard Is This?
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:10AM
So the FIA made a firm decision not to decide on Bahrain. Let's give them another month. What a bunch of champions. Don't wait for Bernie to tell you what is going on, or the rulers, send someone down there to see for yourselves! Better still, ask the media people who are there already. This is not difficult. It should have been dropped a long time ago. Who says there are no politics in sport, anyone who has dealt with a National or International Sporting body knows it is nothing but politics. These guys are elected like normal politicians, and make the same deals to get there. For a while there when Bernie really did run things decisions were made and we got on with it. What happened to Jean Todt, did he forget how to do it?
The story about the Kawasaki Team trailer with the load of drugs, and a gun and ammunition, even worse than drugs in England I would have thought, is an odd one. The team are now saying they knew nothing about any of it, someone snuck into the trailer in Assen and left them there. On the table reportedly, and no one noticed. What was the person who left them thinking? No one will notice, I'll just slip over to England and into the team workshop and pick them up when no one is looking? Big problems for all teams from now on one would think. Can you imagine unpacking one of these at Dover? When I was twelve my family came back from a trip to Europe in a Hillman Minx and I saw what the customs did to that.
There is a mess at Williams. This should not happen to Sir Frank, but the SS Williams looks like the Titanic at the moment. Patrick Head is abandoning ship with his bag of loot from the sale of his shares, which are sinking faster than the teams results. The Captain, Parr, has offered to go down with it, but the owners want him around, so it is Sam Michael and Jon Tomlinson who are to be thrown overboard to appease the ocean gods. Enter the evil villain Mike Coughlin to the rescue. Just kidding, I always thought Mike naive and stupid, and a scapegoat for the "spygate" scandal at McLaren, so he has done his time and is getting another turn in the engine room. Let's hope he can get up enough steam to save her. Sorry about getting carried away with the ship analogy.
Meanwhile, over at superliner Ferrari. Upgrades for Turkey have been tested in a straight line at Vairano, but not until after another of those "filming sessions" that Ferrari seem to be famous for. Amazing how these Italian teams can get away with testing on two and four wheels.
The story about the Kawasaki Team trailer with the load of drugs, and a gun and ammunition, even worse than drugs in England I would have thought, is an odd one. The team are now saying they knew nothing about any of it, someone snuck into the trailer in Assen and left them there. On the table reportedly, and no one noticed. What was the person who left them thinking? No one will notice, I'll just slip over to England and into the team workshop and pick them up when no one is looking? Big problems for all teams from now on one would think. Can you imagine unpacking one of these at Dover? When I was twelve my family came back from a trip to Europe in a Hillman Minx and I saw what the customs did to that.
There is a mess at Williams. This should not happen to Sir Frank, but the SS Williams looks like the Titanic at the moment. Patrick Head is abandoning ship with his bag of loot from the sale of his shares, which are sinking faster than the teams results. The Captain, Parr, has offered to go down with it, but the owners want him around, so it is Sam Michael and Jon Tomlinson who are to be thrown overboard to appease the ocean gods. Enter the evil villain Mike Coughlin to the rescue. Just kidding, I always thought Mike naive and stupid, and a scapegoat for the "spygate" scandal at McLaren, so he has done his time and is getting another turn in the engine room. Let's hope he can get up enough steam to save her. Sorry about getting carried away with the ship analogy.
Meanwhile, over at superliner Ferrari. Upgrades for Turkey have been tested in a straight line at Vairano, but not until after another of those "filming sessions" that Ferrari seem to be famous for. Amazing how these Italian teams can get away with testing on two and four wheels.
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