A petition in support of FOTA (Pitpass)

Has 1,301 signatures at the time of writing.

When was the last time a petition solved anything? The only occasion I can think of is when fans of the CBS post-apocalyptic television series “Jericho” banded together to get the show back on the air. It worked, but CBS cancelled it again anyway shortly afterwards.

There are better ways of making oneself heard.

“this is what we know is happening, this is what I think is happening and this is my opinion”?

because in order to make a valid opinion you need to know the psychology behind each faction including Max, Bernie, FOTA.

With Carlos Ghrosn throwing his weight adds a further variable to think about.

Also FOTA are primarally funded by car makers, such as BMW, Renault and what not, now the board of directors for those companies merely sign the cheques, and from personal experience I know they can’t understand the ammount of money involved in F1 (i’ve seen one FD baulk at the expenses). So trying to get inside info from a team and all you get is an engineer thats proud of his winglets.

as an aside;
We know Bernie and Max have conspired for this monumental arguement; the story is thus
FOTA to Bernie “why dont you give us more money”
*private meeting with Max*
Max to FOTA “why dont you spend less?”

Also any journo that predicts the correct outcome gets major blagging right, and journo that does not and considering the variables such as motives its more likely that they will get it wrong…. as such they will lose a lot of respect in future if they claim they are right today and happen to be wrong tomorrow.

Having your say in media is like cutting open that swan you have that lays golden eggs.

The media all have a bit of a problem, as I’m sure you know, it’s called accreditation. If they actually want to attend the races etc. as media then they have to have it. Who gives accreditation? The FIA. Some will be less than willing to cut off the hand that feeds them.

Also, I hear there are even less media attending races this season. Presumably the economic situation is making some editors cut back? Even when they were attending in larger numbers it was said that many never made it out of the Media Centre & some never saw the race at all.
Much of what we read is just trawled from the internet or sent out by teams/FIA as press releases. It’s given a slight work over & put out again.
This on Joe Montego`s column from the Turkish GP made me smile.