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And FIA counter sues the bozos who chucked crap at the track.

 

fully agree, that was a criminal act!!

if an accident had of happened and anyone was killed it could have been a murder charge because there was premeditated intent...why else are you throwing something on the track where someone is doing over 200mph ??

 

There probibly can be a VALID suit by the ticket purchasers against the speedway; depends on what the ticket purchase contract actually says. The raceway might have a valid suit against the FIA; again, depending on what is contained in the contract.

 

Michelin should pay all damages, fees and costs.

 

They have at least one guy on tape, I say, ID him and charge him. What those rednecks were doing HAS to be against the law.

 

Give the people what they want! The simple solution to this is add an additional race to the calender at the end of the season! Honor the same tickets from this past weekend and work with the various hotels and event organizers to make things right. Nobody would care if the "championship" would be over, they wanna see a race! If you wait til next season to try to fix this, F1 would be badly damaged here in the states! If you fix it now, you maybe able to salvage it!

 

What a jerk. Is this guy a typical USA F1 fan?

I can appreciate being disappointed because the race wasn't what he expected, but get serious, proving fraud in this case is a pipedream.

 

I feel the the 7 Michelin teams are also at fault by chosing not to race with the equipment they brought to the race. They could've gone slower for that part of track or could've changed tires when they had to. But chose not to.

 

Just curious, how do you know that guy was from the US? I certainly heard many other languages out there this weekend, and rioting seems to be a staple of European/South American sporting events such as "football" and rugby

 

Its hard to predict when a tire will fail so I wouldn't be so critical of the decision not to run. But let's face it, would there be so much concern had this happened to Bridgestone? And only Ferrari, and two back marker teams weren't racing? I seriously doubt it. Michelin has been caught with their pants down and, like Lucy, "they got a lot of 'splainin to do"

 

AMEN

 

1. I think a class action suit might determine fault. Though, the claimant argument was that no race should have taken place. I'm glad at least a few teams did race. It would have been worse had the race not gone on.

2. Unfortunately, I agree that the fans that threw items on the track should be charged. I'm not saying they should have stiff fines, but you can't allow this behavior to go unanswered. I sympathize with them, but the did wrong.

3. I hold the teams that decided not to race responsible. I don't care much for Bernie or the FIA, but those teams had safe alternatives and let their egos get in the way.

 

I don't know why the Speedway was named in the suit. As far as I'm concerned, they're as much a victim as the fans.

 

Class action suit - a synonym for stinking lawyers getting rich and the spectators getting sc&wed - AGAIN. When did a class action suit ever work for the claimants to get their money back - if you wanted to hurt F1 - boycott ..but let's not make the lawyers rich in the process!

 

I tell you the fans reactions was CIVILIZED.

have you ever seen a soccer match anywhere around the world.

if this would have happened in brazil or italy or somehwere else, the fans would have streamed into the pits for a full blown riots.

look back at last year's race, or past races.

 

Deep pockets - Class action is not about making things right - it's about lawyers making money!

 

I agree... UK is up there too on the list of Civiled Fans...

 

Throwing beer bottles at cars doing 340km/h is civilized now, is it? (At the few teams who were trying to actually put on a show, to boot)

Let's cut the crap here. Bad behaviour is bad behaviour, whether it be hooliganism in soccer or Formula One. A few morons acted like criminals, and they should have been punished for it. But this should not detract from the thousands of well-behaved, but rightly pissed off, fans who acted with complete civility.

 

there are always rotten apples. im not saying the ppl that threw stuff was civilized or right, im saying that as a whole it was pretty orderly, they got screwed, they got pissed, they left the place

there was no Lakers victory riot, thats what im saying.

 

I wonder why he didn't sue the Michelin shod teams/principals. They were the ones who actually gave the orders to the drivers to park their cars.

 

Very true.

 

His ticket agreement wasn't with them. He is leaving it to them to recover damages from the teams.