SPOILER: F-1 results. Complaints, anyone?

[David Eaton]

f1 has always been a "team" sport, and so the austrian gp is nothing new.  in
the old days, in some cases, drivers even handed over their cars during the
race to the #1 driver, so that he could complete the race.

and we recently also had the case of mclaren fixing the outcome of the race
between their drivers prior to the start.

what is different is that this was done in such an overt way, and has been such
a pr nightmare that the fia might be moved to do something about it.  after
doing nothing about it for 50 years, it will be interesting to see how the fia
deals with it without themselves being accused of hypocrisy.

f1 has never been a sport.  it is motor-racing, and at the top level, simply
very expensive pr.

$0.02

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q

>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:13:39 -0400
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>From: Richard Beels <dare2dream at compuserve.com>
>Subject: Re: Fw: SPOILER: F-1 results. Complaints, anyone?
>
>Rubens should use his contract for TP and go call Ron Dennis.
>
>But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
>
>
>At 01:11 05/13/2002, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Michael Riebs / Audi
>V8's keyboard and said:
>>
>>Wow, I was expecting to come in this morning to see a bunch of disgruntled

>>listers complaining on the Spielberg A-1 ring race results, but not one
>>single post on this subject.
>>
>>Did nobody watch the race, or it the shameful handing over of the win just

>>too painful to discuss?
>>