Should Mosley Resign?

ktoal

After all the antics of the US, France and now the British GPs, should Mosley resign...? for the good of the sport, I say Yes!!!

Is the World Motor Sport Council too big for one man to handle?

1) He had the power to resolve the US GP farce. He did not
2) He cancelled a meeting with the GPDA in France at the last minute.
3) He cancelled another meeting with the GPDA at Silverstone on friday.

In the latest display of his angst for FIA president Max Mosley, Minardi boss Paul Stoddart revealed that he would sell the team if Mosley survives the year. - Taken from Setanta Sport.

What's your views?

dearg_doom

Good luck to Stoddart trying to get a good price for that team, I can't wait for him to feck off, all he does is moan and portray himself as some kind of martyr for the sport.

And, not to imply that I think any more highly of Mosley, but he didn't have the power to resolve the USGP farce, actually:p

ktoal

One of the solutions put forward by the 7 Michelin team's was, that they would score no points (All points go to the Bridgestone teams), if a chicane was added. Another was to make it a non-championship race. But Mosley said "no way" and threaten to pull all the F1 safety equipment and procedures if a non-Championship race was run. Can you imagine having a major accident at 190MPH and having no medical, support staff to help out. Not even a safety car.... Ouch... that gotta hurt.

We could talk for years about the US GP and still get nowhere. Should he resign? There seems to be to much politics and friction for him to stay. It's a sport and the fans just want to see great racing, will I do anyway.

As for Stoddart, he's only voicing the opinion of the rest of the group. Think about it, he's team princple, team owner. Who's going to fire him if he talks out of turn. Most of the other princples have bosses and don't like to rock the boat in public. Stoddart does care, he's the last of a dying F1 breed.

dearg_doom

You have it all wrong, though.

Mosely hadn't any power to do anything.

The race director said no to a chicane.

Rightly.

How can you endorse the idea of just adding chicanes willy-nilly to F1 circuits??

These guys drive at over 100mph arond corners. They spend months studying the tracks, they learn how long to spend accelerating/braking. If you make a change to a track like you propose, you change the whole track completely. The drivers would not have been able to drive safely around an altered track they weren't familiar with.

This would have been as dangerous a situ as tyres blowing up all over the place. People could have died. It has happened before and I presume the FIA will do whatever needs to be done to prevent it happening again.

There were a lot of retarded decisions taken that day, the teams could have raced with a speed limit on that corner, Michelin could have worked with the teams to set their cars up to go easier on the rear-left tyre, the race could have been scrapped. But one of the correct decisions was preventing a chicane.

If you really want to find out what the story really is, read the press releases on the official sites for the companies involved, Michelin, formula1, FIA, minardi etc... Don't believe everything that the papers say.

steviec

dearg_doom wrote:

You have it all wrong, though.

Mosely hadn't any power to do anything.

The race director said no to a chicane.

Rightly.

How can you endorse the idea of just adding chicanes willy-nilly to F1 circuits??

These guys drive at over 100mph arond corners. They spend months studying the tracks, they learn how long to spend accelerating/braking. If you make a change to a track like you propose, you change the whole track completely. The drivers would not have been able to drive safely around an altered track they weren't familiar with.

This would have been as dangerous a situ as tyres blowing up all over the place. People could have died. It has happened before and I presume the FIA will do whatever needs to be done to prevent it happening again.

There were a lot of retarded decisions taken that day, the teams could have raced with a speed limit on that corner, Michelin could have worked with the teams to set their cars up to go easier on the rear-left tyre, the race could have been scrapped. But one of the correct decisions was preventing a chicane.

If you really want to find out what the story really is, read the press releases on the official sites for the companies involved, Michelin, formula1, FIA, minardi etc... Don't believe everything that the papers say.

I agree 100%

And the fact that Minardi, a bridgestone team have been one of the biggest critics of the handling of the US GP, while Red Bull, a michelin team but one without allegiances to any other teams right now and are heading into a partnership with Ferrari, didn't want to appeal the decision plus didn't have their drivers sign the GPDA statement criticising Moseley goes to show just how much the teams used that race to try and make a statement and make Moseley look bad more so than anything else. I get the impression they didn't want a solution. The chicane was never an option, that's very clear. FIA's suggestion for the teams to 'just slow down' on the corner wasn't exactly ideal either but it would probably have been the safest option. Bridgestone teams weren't gonna just run into the back of them.

When you have teams at war with the organisers then things are going to happen like this. Where a small problem of a faulty tyre gets blown out of all proportion, destroys a race weekend, and casts a shadow over the whole sport. Moseley has done a lot wrong in his position there's no doubt about that, but he can't be blamed for Indy.

dearg_doom

Yeah, it's a pity it had to happen like it did, especially in the US, who don't exactly 'get' F1 at the best of times:)