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.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:42:45 +0000

What this tells me is that Max is determined to stay on at all costs, as power-chasers are wont to do. At least there may now be will to get a non-power-chaser in the top seat – but the process is very, v e r y s l o w . . .

By: Ratboy

Ratboy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:40:59 +0000

And here I was thinking there was going to be a season without someone or something bringing the sport into disrepute, for the sake of all the motorsport that the FIA is in charge of he should just quit and retreat somewhere quiet.

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:24:39 +0000

During Max’s six-week window three races will take place and every single senior F1 person at those races will be talking about Max’s behaviour, and the situation will get worse and worse for him. His best option would have been to hold a meeting on the Monday after the Bahrain GP – at least he would minimize the damage to himself in F1 circles.

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:10:53 +0000

The EGM is clearly just Max playing for time. Alianora has done the homework and discovered that "the meeting has to take place between 35 days and six weeks (i.e. 42 days) of the announcement". If Max thinks anyone, let alone the manufacturers, will wait that long, he really is living in a dream world.

The manufacturers have asked for an immediate response from the FIA – let them demand it now.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:27:39 +0000

Can we drop the suicide stuff please guys it’s a bit tasteless.

What do we think of the meeting Mosley’s calling? It’s going to tale a while to get all the necessary people together – over 200 I understand. Is Mosley just playing for time?

There’s a good article on it on Grandprix.com btw.

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:19:34 +0000

This story is doing our creativity and imagination a lot of good, isn’t it?

By: Dan M

Dan M — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:13:49 +0000

Article 10.5 Committing Suicide After a Character Assassination:

The party responsible will swallow a sionide pill followed by a gun shot to the head. After the said death the user will be given a "bullet credit" for all bullets used. The said party will then have to die within 110% of the time of the original suicide thought process. Bullets will be homogenized for 10 year period. With a maximum muzzle velocity set.

"wait a minute, how is the dog going to kill itself
if I’m already dead?"

Article 10.5 Revision 1:
……

By: De

De — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:04:42 +0000

Sorry I was talking to 51#.

By: De

De — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:03:44 +0000

LOL, "No spanking please, that does not excite us."

I was talking about the FIA’s response to BMW and Mercedes, why do FIA has to response to BMW and Mercedes anyway, or it will be Mosley’s personal response. And what about Honda and Toyota, a little spanking too?

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:58:41 +0000

Now don’t all rush to thank me, but I think I’ve got a solution for this whole affair - Max resigns from the FIA now, then comes back in six months with a TV gameshow called "Spank or Bank", a question and answer game where the winner can choose between a cash prize or a session with Max. It’s got hit written all over it, even if it probably shouldn’t be shown before the watershed.