Smoking the Peace Pipe
Peace has returned to the world of Formula One. But at what cost?
Yet again, after everyone makes kissy-faces and make up, the sport is left with a black eye in terms of public perception. Actually, a black eye would be lucky. It feels like the sport got dragged through a ditch backwards and left on the road.
Hasn't anyone learned from the past few years? You would think the experiences over the past few years would make people think 'hey, lets try to keep a lid on this?' Instead, we get a public mud slinging match that overshadowed a good weekend of racing. Now, only half a week after that, everyone is friends again, more or less.
For a group that was so willing to be public about things, they are being closely regarded about the particulars of how peace was made. Now that everyone is back in the same bed again, does that mean the fans once more are shut out with everything decided behind closed doors?
Formula One has a serious image problem that it needs to fix. It will take time to mend the bridges that were blown up during this civil war. Di Montezemolo was right about one thing, the sport does need to be relaunched.
Now, that apparently everyone is back at the same table, is the time to fix issues that are up with this sport. While steps have been made to make the sport more accessible, such as the interviews after each session of qualifying, the sport can do so much more to become more fan friendly. The spectacle itself needs much work. Despite work by the committee for overtaking, we still have cars unable to get close when they get around a second behind another.
Of course, that may just be wishful thinking. Only time will tell.
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I have to agree with you completely, but it seems humans are condemned to continually making the same mistakes again and again and again, hence the saying “history repeats itself”.
In cases where disputes are inevitable and I believe they are never inevitable, but let’s play along for the sake of this, I would love to see two opposing sides first generate a strategy, based on what has gone before, what can reasonably be achieved and the steps needed to achieve this. Then and only then, go into negotiations with the other side. Unfortunately, alpha males dominate most governing bodies and corporations and only know one way of operating, brute force, hence the stupidity and mudslinging. Their minions in turn want to please the alpha by playing by the same rules and it just spirals from there. Max Mosley sank to an all time low with his comments about the teams, once this went on air, his fate was sealed, yet a man with his huge experience didn’t see this, a case of not engaging brain before opening mouth.
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