Comments on: Bahrain snub piles pressure on Mosley

By: Josh J

Josh J — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:55:08 +0000

Fascinating article posted, thanks for that thought you might al be interested in a transcript for the 1998 Panorama program on Bernie and Max – haven’t read it yet, but I’m sure it’s interesting!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_16_11_98.txt

By: Journeyer

Journeyer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:49:03 +0000

PP & Patrik, I mentioned this over at Clive’s, but it’s worth repeating here: the article in PP’s link was written by Tom Rubython. So take it with a grain of salt. A whole rock of salt, even!

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:55:15 +0000

They’ve only got 7 days of leeway in the date of the Extraordinary General Assembly though… …it has to be between May 8 and May 15. That squashes it rather awkwardly around the Turkish Grand Prix weekend.

By: Patrik

Patrik — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:52:21 +0000

Sorry, the link was in post #66 (not 64)!
Required reading!

By: Patrik

Patrik — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:45:41 +0000

Pink, #64,

Astonishing reading under your link there!
Seems the whole F1/FIA business has gone bonkers. F1 and FIA seems to have been effectively kidnapped/stolen by Bernie and Max. Can’t understand that the whole circus is not ended and a new start is done in a new series. Most contracts should be able to be scrapped anyway given the sordid methods used by the involved. 100 year contracts.. give me a break! BMW falling into line so the new 5-series won’t get a bad NCAP rating..omg!

No wonder Max uses threatening language in the reply to BMW and Mercedes! He is used to those methods.

Now ITV has suddenly been punished by Bernie (after ITV has done massive good to popularise F1 again in the UK), and the UK TV-license payer has been punished by BBC by lining Bernie’s pockets, it’s even more obvious that it’s all madness.

No sport can survive and still be a proper sport under the type of dictatorial and arbitrary rule from above that F1 has come under.

It’s just total madness!

By: Michael K

Michael K — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:06:32 +0000

I know that Mosley can’t be directly fired by Bernie, but effectively he can do just that as he has the FIA by cojones… The mechanisms just have to play out and it takes time, as was already mentioned.

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:33:40 +0000

Have a read of this article guys

http://www.sportspromedia.com/mosley.htm

Think you’ll find it veeeery interesting indeed

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:12:23 +0000

Poetic justice isn’t it, after Mad Max trying to force Ron Dennis out, only to have the tables turned.

Kinda makes you beleive in karma.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:10:18 +0000

No I think you’ve got a point Roswelite – any team or, more likely, sponsor looking for an easy way out, say in light of the current market trouble, could quite easily say it’s because of the Mosley scandal. There is no way in which this is good for F1. And if, as Alianora suggest, it may take a few weeks, it is awful.

By: theRoswellite

theRoswellite — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:08:19 +0000

Here is an adjunct idea: Toyota (read any other team bleeding $$$ in F1), having decided at some previous point that it would like out of F1………………But lacks the will/ingenuity to do so in such a way that it will not be seen as a quitter/loser…….seizes upon the "moral high ground", after the FIA refuse to immediately remove Mr. Mosely……. and declare they can no longer participate in such a "tainted activity" as F1….?

I’m sure this idea is totally vacuous and will not surface in any corporate boardrooms…..be they sponsors or teams.