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[demetriou_74]

what does everybody think?

[Yiannis]

Formula 1 keeps getting worse and worse.

[city]

Unbelievable!

[demetriou_74]

i think f1 is gettin better with it being more even but today was a joke. i stoped watchin after the 5th lap

[philippos.net]

It was up to Michelin to put their cars in the race. Ferrari do its job. If michelin have the correct tires with them then the race would be done without any problem. I agree with FIA who didn't accept shekane addition.

[Hazza]

With the new rules of not being able to import new tyres to the race was a total farce.

Alot of rules have been brought into F1 to protect the drivers, making it safer, yet the FIA didn't give a monkeys yesterday. They were quite prepared to allow the drivers to race on what could have been potentially life threatening dangers.

The paying public felt hard done by after paying all that money to watch this circus, the sponsers I am sure will be up in arms and will want some form of compensation and most of all, the teams that this affected will demand action.

Does Ferrari gain any credibilty for their win yesterday? does Schumacher deserve any praise for his win yesterday? I think not. Just a handful of drivers racing guaranteed to get points if they finished the race.

[demetriou_74]

a race is a race however shit it may be. just becasue Mich could not send out cars why should all the other teams suffer. ferrari were not even racing. they were 2 seconds off the 'normal' time. ferrari should be chucked out of f1

[cannedmoose]

I gave up on lap 10... usually an avid watcher but there was no point.

[demetriou_74]

I gave up on lap 10... usually an avid watcher but there was no point.

same i only made it to lap 5 and realised i could witness a better race by watching snails in my garden.

ferrari are a disgrace to the sport

[cannedmoose]

ferrari are a disgrace to the sport

It's all too easy to blame the incident on ferrari... they were in the right in claiming that they should not be unfairly penalised for the mistake of others. In the end it made a farce of the race and ruined the spectacle but it was not entirely their fault.

The real culprits are:

Michelin: for bringing an untested tyre to the race, compared to Bridgestone who went with a tyre that they knew could take the pounding of a 200mph oval bend

FIA: For sticking rigidly to the rules and not looking at things from a fan's perspective. A proposal was made by a number of teams to put a chicane before turn 13 to lower the approach speed, with various sub-proposals including allowing the Bridgestone runners to start in the first 6 places on the grid; to run the race with the Michelin runners not scoring any points. If the second proposal had been accepted by both the FIA and Ecclestone, the race could have gone ahead, but rules were stuck to and the farce resulted.

Bernie Ecclestone: For taking sides with the Bridgestone runners and failing to appreciate his responsibility for putting on a spectacle, also for reasons noted above.

All in all, this has damaged the credibility of F1 and has probably killed it off in the US entirely (not that I care, let them have their Indycar and Nascar nonsense). It has also severely damaged Michelin's reputation and will probably augur a one-tyre formula in the near future.