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F1...new low

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Shane

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Briatore and Symonds leave Renault apparently due to the allegations of race-fixing. I'm not so appalled that it was done, it was the manner in which it was done. Deliberately crashing a race car is absurd. The risk to your driver and other drivers is too great. Piquet should not have done it, but I guess when Flavio spoke, he had to listen.

Needless to say, I think Nelson Piquet's F1 career is over. It was hobby to Briatore, he doesn't need to come back. Symonds??? Would you hire him?
 
Renault are carrying on a glorious French tradition. Remember Mini headlamps at Monte Carlo? Lotus 23 at Le Mans?
 
Will they continue with their legal action against Piquet Jr?
 
Baz said:
Will they continue with their legal action against Piquet Jr?
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I would hope that they would drop it...there's a lot of egg on their face right now.
 
Sigh................all sports seem to be falling under some sort of fixing or steroids, or whatever to get an illegal, if not immoral edge these days. Racing is fast becoming a boring sport as it is and unless the acts get cleaned up, the general public will begin to treat all records with indifference. the home run and hit asterisks, if you will.
 
Hopefully all three are finished in F1. Nothing surprises me anymore but it is extraordinarily infuriating! I just can't imagine someone like Jimmy Clark doing such a thing. Guess I shouldn't raise the bar so high for the current lot....
Roy
 
Gray_Cat said:
Hopefully all three are finished in F1. Nothing surprises me anymore but it is extraordinarily infuriating! I just can't imagine someone like Jimmy Clark doing such a thing. Guess I shouldn't raise the bar so high for the current lot....
Roy
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My heart skipped a beat when Sir Jackie Stewart disclosed that he had been asked by "someone very high up" to run for president of FIA (Most believed it was Ecclestone himself). He turned it down, stating that the state of the organization now will require 5-10 years to fix, and he doesn't feel that he has that much time or stamina to bring the sport back to where it was. That's too bad, if ever there was a perfect candidate, it would be Sir Jackie.
 
Indeed. He's wise enough to know not to stick his hand in a cat fight.
 
F1 isn't a sport any more.
It's big business, and run by said business.
 
Sir Jackie Stewart drove during what I consider the best era in Formula 1. I still follow the sport, but the cars of '60s & early '70s had such an appealing purity of design. There's no going back, but at least I have the memories from many trips to Watkins Glen.
 
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