Stephen’s World

I watched the GP

So I’m still amazed at the whole US GP situation, I cannot understand why the F1 powers that be don’t understand the big picture. Just in case they are reading this, it is ENTERAINING THE RACE FANS!!!!! Without the fans watching the racing there would be no ticket sales, no sponsors and no racing. They are trying to break in to the US market because the Americans are big motorsport fans, just look at the crowds Indy Raceway is designed to hold, like over 400k people, now the US market will be in effect dead to F1.

So the race was an abortion, and the Michelin teams to be honest did the right thing, could you imagine the press if today after the race if they had run we could have been looking at what could have been one of the largest crashes in F1 history. If a tire had failed during a race on that corner just think of the potential loss of life, drivers, spectators and Indy raceway staff. Then just think of the legal field day that the american lawyers would have had too, Michelin, the teams and the FIA would have been sued into the stoneage.

There was a simple thing that could have given race fans a race, a chicane. The Michelin runners even offered to start at the back and run without points. So basically the points situation would have been the same as yesterday, but the crowd would have gone home happy. Plus we wouldn’t have had this farce.

All in all, Michelin and the Michelin teams did the right thing.