FIA Presidency

Jean Todt won the FIA Presidential Election.

I don't like him. I don't trust him. He made many fans' lives a misery for years at Ferrari with his sniping and bending of the rules.

It sucks that a) he had the better ideas and manifesto, and b) won.
Such a shame Vatanen came over as just a bit too clueless.

We'll wait and see if this new era brings us the promised changes or if he'll 'forget'. His first act appears to be to make Michael Schumacher his F1 Commissioner. I have no idea how true that is. Let's hope not at all.

On the plus side... he's gotta be better than Max.

Why We Are Here

I'm a bit late catching up with my RSS reader, as I am with so many things. Nevertheless, I would like to associate myself with remarks made by Joe Saward recently. If you are disillusioned with the endless politicking in F1 and other motorsports be sure to give it a read - and also the comments, because the second comment is from motorsport historian Gerald Donaldson and there is also a comment from F1 PR man Nav Sidhu.
It is nice know that in a world where we can all write what we will, there is still a place for the professional writer to help us express ourselves more clearly.

http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/two-crashes/

Back in the world of the bloggers, I also echo Alia's response to that post:

http://formula1home.com/forum/weblog_entry.php?e=844

I don't wish to ride on their coat-tails, merely to pass on some good writing which deserves an audience. See you for Singapore.