F1 Fanatic

I thoroughly enjoyed Le Mans, though I will acknowledge it didn’t have the frenetic duelling at the front of the primary categories that last year boasted. I can see why the very F1-orientated Paul Hembrey might […]

The calendar has gone up 25% in terms of race numbers in 2003. So only getting 9% from that would be unimpressive, as it implies that each race is giving less money now than in 2003.

Bernie is the negotiator for CVC, and F1 does not race anywhere without Bernie’s permission. If a circuit owner considers the attitude of the negotiator unacceptable, where the money goes following agreement is […]

Congratulations on your exam results! Perhaps Force India could do with you joining their legal team?

One year is a delay when one notes that the original version of the reforms were promised back in 2002 (the 2011 reforms are the second version). It comes across as foot-dragging, especially when paired with […]

Not to mention race cancellation and banning from holding future F1 races (as per Jerez in 1997), but the FIA has too much at stake in the Middle East in terms of “growing the sport” to risk demolishing its […]

He can have his cheque and eat it now that the race is over. Even if he previously told the Bahrain organisers that “UniF1ed” was OK, there’s probably a clause for using F1 in messages contravening F1′s […]

Hospitality is usually paid for well in advance. It may even have been cheaper this way because they wouldn’t have spent money on things like food that weren’t needed, once it became clear that many people were […]

Simple. Bahrain was blocking all journalists not connected with specific, non-controversial (in the government’s eyes) events until this week. The ones who are there now are on a special “F1 Visa”, with other […]

Syria isn’t breaking the FIA’s regulations (and, obviously, F1 isn’t there) so this would hardly be the forum to complain about Syria. Bahrain has, the FIA is there anyway, so here is the right place to complain […]

Because the organisers broke the “apolitical” rule and the FIA condoned it. Which means the FIA going to Bahrain is political, whether the FIA accepts that fact or not.

Simple. Article 1 of the FIA Statutes forbids linking F1 with politics. The organisers, in using the “UniF1ed” ad campaign, linked F1 with politics. Cancelling would be because the organisers broke just about the […]

Due to the Bahraini organisers linking F1 and politics despite FIA regs prohibiting it, the apolitical stance is to stay away. Going implies the FIA condones linking F1 with politics (at least, by those who have […]

Or you’re a Sky viewer (those boxes can be counted individually).