I’m back, after a week away from this thing I have returned to give my opinion on sport yet again. Why was I gone so long? Well, I’m not sure, but I think it might have been that I was stunned into silence after reading an article early last week that said the great Bernie Eccelstone was thinking of putting short cuts into F1 courses to aid overtaking.

What?

I know old age makes people do and say silly things, but those people end up being well looked after and pumped full of pills to keep the senile rambles to a minimum, whereas old man Ecceelstone still has his greasy paws firmly at the controls of Formula One.

What is it with people at the sharp end of professional sports and idiotic comments every time a microphone is pressed into their faces? Where Sepp Blatter is the ultimate conservative when it comes to the idea of change, Bernie Eccelstone is his complete opposite.

Putting short cuts into F1? No, that wouldn’t make it the laughing stock of all motor sport and all sport in general now would it? Eccelstone’s proposal was to have certain short cuts that drivers could take five times per race in order to get past an opponent that was holding them up. In other worse, take all the skill out of the sport so that the fans can enjoy it more. Talk about insulting the well educated fans of the sport who love the fact that there is a challenge to it. What next? A button to release oil from your car to make your opponent skid?

Last year Eccelstone came up with the medal system that he wanted to use to decide the World Championship which proved to be a foolish idea, and now this. Sometimes I wonder if really he has no intentions of implementing these ideas and only throws them out during slow news weeks in order to keep the sport in the press and keep people talking?

Thankfully this idea is unlikely to get the go ahead and F1 will remain more like F1 than Mario Kart.

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