Bob Barnard Track Engineering

So Sam Michael has to move on from Williams, and where does he go? McLaren as Sporting Director. Now I call that a very good move, nice one Sam.

Someone else moving on is Stephen Mullens, long time legal advisor to Bernie. Now this story has been angled two ways. Some sites are slanting this as Stephen leaving because of the Gribkowsky affair, in which he has been implicated. He is said to have resigned from seven of Bernie's companies. Pit Pass of course has their own view. He is only involved in the family trust, and another lawyer from the same firm has taken over, so just a handover? Read it how you like, but in my experience very few people ever leave Bernie, either he looks after them too well or they know where the bodies are buried, or both. So unless Stephen has a health issue, this does have some "legs" as they say in the classics.

Bernie and the boys are not the only ones being sued, our old mate Tavo is being sued by an attorney who says he did work on the basis that he would end up with 5% of the GP deal. Tavo says he was working for free and never sent an invoice. Sounds like sweat equity to me then. Not content with having to manage the US GP and a new track Tavo has found time to advise South Africa, Mexico and Argentina on F1 GPs, despite not having staged one himself yet. The newspaper reporting all this went on to say "actual construction of the Circuit of the Americas’ infrastructure will begin "soon." What have they been doing all this time?