I agree, except for one thing - I think the racing on this track is boring. Regardless though, look at one of the stupid comments that appears on youtube regarding the video: "Google created these protests, google wants all this to happen. Google has banned my original profile for posting a video of an aftermath of a bomb in Afghanistan that was not nearly as graphic as this but they put this video on the front page?? Ya google is just a front organization for the NSA and CIA and thats not disputed so if you try and argue against that save your time because your a retard greygoosevodka1" "GOOGLE CREATED THESE PROTESTS" - ?????? That is a pretty lame statement.
From James Allen on Twitter: There seem to be a lot of people outraged at Bernie's procrastination on this. I'm not surprised at all. He clearly realises a race can't happen in March, but he won't make the call as it would cost him $$$$. He wants the Bahrain gov't to cancel so it won't cost him anything. http://newsthump.com/2011/02/21/f1-bahrain-decision-best-made-by-man-who-gave-me-millions-of-pounds-insists-ecclestone/
If the race goes ahead as scheduled, or is rescheduled for later this year, any odds on whether Bernie himself will attend? Or will he personally chicken-out and stay in England/Monaco/Switzerland to watch events unfold?
I, for one, am glad someone in the F1 circus has stepped up and expressed what most of us have been saying: Webber said: "When you hear of people losing their lives, this is a tragedy. "It's probably not the best time to go there for a sporting event. They have bigger things, bigger priorities." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9403068.stm Bernie, listen to Webber!
Webber has a point but: the people dying never had much to do with the race to begin with. The race was always for the superrich of Bahrain.
I wasn't cynical, I was just responding to the comment, that the people have bigger things/bigger priorities right now: While that is true, even if the protests wouldn't be happening this race never was a priority/interest on people's minds because the race has very little local support. I agree with Webber that F1 shouldn't have a race in a country while people are being shot. It is just the wording he used that was a bit odd: If there shouldn't be a GP because people have bigger priorities then there should never be a Bahrain GP (or Chinese GP or...) because the average citizen doesn't care about that race to begin with.
http://twitter.com/IAA_Bahrain From Bahrain's royals I assume. This is the link provided by Autosport where I just say the update in live timing a couple minutes ago
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89598 As posted on Twitter: Image Unavailable, Please Login
From the official statement by way of Pitpass "..so that the country can focus on its process of national dialog." Process of national dialog? Are these folks out of touch or what?
If it is moved after the final race of this season, that means a shorter off-season between '11 and '12
And it should never have been there, and I think Webber was trying to carefully say that. We Australians do have morals (although some are still struggling with how we should care for Aborginals, but when you look back many years afterwards you can always dispute what was done then with hindsight. There are many cases of people through out the world, and definitely Australia, that have been put into care which was not the right answer, whether Aborginal or not). We (F1 and any other international series) should not race in China, probably Brazil and Abu Dubai (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html) either. This is the problem with filthy rich people, they simply don't give a flying fnck about anybody else (re-Bernie and the rest of the F1 gang). As far as I am concerned to be able to run a race for any international FIA series the country has to be 100% democratic ... end of story. Pete
