April 28, 2003
Two Grand Prix World Championships?
Max Mosley says that a "Grand Prix World Championship" series is almost a certainty. He is "pessimistic that the existing Formula One team owners and Bernie Ecclestone will reach a compromise," and for that reason thinks "that GPWC will happen" by 2008. [Guardian Unlimited]
What a disaster this would be. Hasn't the Formula One crowd learned anything from the CART/IRL split in US open-wheel motor racing? Dividing the international driving world championship series in two would ruin it.
Both sides here need to stop grandstanding and come to their senses.
Posted by glenn
Unlike other world sporting associations, this one is owned and governed by two persons and their grandmothers. Their personal interests are in direct conflict with those of the constructors (there haven't been UK constructors for a very long time now). Pay-tv and ownership issues are clear examples of this. Changing the rules whenever they see fit is another.
There will be more UK tobacco mafias, Iraq wars, afghan cocaine wars and the like. But the British parasitic mafias will sooner or later come to an end.
Posted by: asdf at October 31, 2003 12:56 AM
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