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Originally posted by Jeremy Cottrell
I will always love Formula One. I will always love the cars, the speed, the technology, the sound, etc. Mostly I love the history and the great stories. I will continue to celebrate the birthdays of Ayrton Senna and Gilles Villenueve. I have fought for years with friends to embrace the greatness of this form of motorsport. Many just don't get it. Unfortunatly, I have to hang my head in shame at the behaviour of those indivduals involved with this disaster, namely Michelin, Ferrari, and Ecclestone. This happened at the absolute worst time in the absolute worst place it could have. I can only hope that this was a crazy isolated incident, and nothing like this will ever happen again. The fans do come first and I hope these guys have learned a valueable lesson. Hopefully the American support if F1 can recover.
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I blame Michelin and all the teams that refused to race because they were not going to be fast. They came to the race with the wrong gear, asked for the rules to change so they would be allowed to use a 3rd set of tires and were rejected. Then they asked for the rules to change again for a chicane to be added and were rejected.
There was a solution to the problem, manage the tires, stay off the banking and go a little slower. Was Ferrari going to clobber them? Yes. Who's fault was that? No one seemed to mind when Ferrari was struggling with tire issues so far this season and probably will continue to have issues.
The FIA has summoned all the "boycott" teams to a hearing. I would imagine at the very least they will be fined, they might also loose championship points for this fiasco as well.
I am at a loss why Ferrari is the bad guy in all of this. They came to race and race they did.... sort of. I guess Ferrari is just an easy scapegoat.