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Max, It Really Is Time For You To Go!

Written by George Katinger · May 20, 2006

Many fans and involved parties in F1 have long called Max Mosley, the controversial and dictatorial leader of FIA, “Mad”. He is obviously working hard to live up to his growing reputation and nick name


f1l.com: Mosley’s driver rotation dream

I first read this over at Full Throttle this morning, and our friend Marc is slightly less generous in his opinion of Max, but none the less accurate. The title of the posted article includes the word dream, most would call his idea a nightmare. He is quoted as saying he has been advocating this concept for 20 years or so. What idea? From the article:

“Let’s assume that there are 12 teams and 18 races.

“Each driver would drive each car once so that after the first 12 races all 24 drivers would have driven the cars of each team owner.

“At this point, the leading driver would nominate the six different teams for whom he would drive in the last six races.

“The driver laying second in the championship would then make his choice, and so on.

“The order in which each driver drives for each team would be decided by lot.”

I must admit it is my first sampling of this insanity and it confirms my suspicions on Max’s continuing need for ego feed. With the GPMA-Concorde Extension a nearly dead issue, Max has been out of the limelight for what, 2-3 days? He needs to do-say something, anything, to keep his name in the media and his needy self image inflated with some form of impotence. Oops, my Freud is showing, make that importance!

Stay where you belong Max, in the background. Stop usurping the sport’s right to set it’s own competitive standards and regulations. Not only is your stupid idea impractical and impossible, it’s not even entertaining or provocative. It smacks of a dictatorial tendency I thought you would try to avoid.

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4 Responses to “Max, It Really Is Time For You To Go!”

  1. Don Speekingleesh on May 20th, 2006 1:41 pm

    It isn’t the first time he’s come out with this stupid idea. I think it’s his way of warning everyone that he could make things worse if he wanted…

  2. peterg on May 20th, 2006 11:01 pm

    Dictator indeed! This is the equivalent of collectivised farming under Stalin.

    I’m convinced Max writes this stuff for no other reason than to get up peoples noses.

  3. Marc on May 21st, 2006 8:27 am

    “slightly less generous?”

    Im hurt George, I thought I was being overly kind.

    Just because I made an appointment for Mad Max to meet Nurse Ratchet doesn’t mean I dislike the poor ole fool.

  4. Brett Hart on June 7th, 2006 6:00 am

    We all know F1 is no longer a sport, but utterly a business. Overtaking happens almost only while pitting, racing is never close, powersliding is a mistakes which we no longer witness & if a driver tries enough to make only a teeny blunder he pays for it by spending the whole of the race in the gravel. It wasn’t always this way.
    Aerodynamics make it physically impossible to race closely while cornering. The faster the corner the larger the gap. This is not beacuse the drivers don’t have the courage, far from it.
    Slick tyre technology has made the most accessable overtaking move (braking later than the target along the inside of the approaching corner) because of the consequence known as marbles. I want to suggest strongly to introduce F1 with absolutely no aerodynamic devices & allowed only road registerable tyres of say 15 to 18 inches wide on the back. I believe that the reduced cornering speeds would be vastly compensated by the close racing. Also, the reduced cornering G forces would mean a drastically reduced possibilty of injurous crashes. With the enormous strength of todays technology of carbon fibre & Kevlar chassis it may even be possible to consider racing at the banned tracks that many people talk about in total awe - Spa Francorchamps, Rouen, Clermont Ferrand, Ostereichring & dare I mention the N word?

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