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.

Today Bernie Eccel$tone announced that F1 would not being racing in Donnington next season because they had missed their deadline for something or other that is not important anymore. Fair enough really, but what isn’t fair is the potential threat by Eccelstone that F1 might not go to Britain at all and that it doesn’t necessarily deserve a race just because it is ‘Britain’.

Well that is where Bernie is wrong. F1 does need the British GP just like it needs Spa in Belgium, Monza in Italy and Monte Carlo in Monaco. These are the cornerstones of F1 racing, they are the crown jules in the sport and the races that should be protected regardless of cash flow. They are the races that F1 itself should be paying to host if a paying private host cannot be found.

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I haven’t been a big Bernie fan in recent years but lately all hope and faith in the man at the top of Formula One has gone out the window. Reasons why he is not fit to be in a position of power was shown again yesterday when he claimed that Hitler was a man who got things done. He also managed to compliment Saddam Hussein and offend Black people in the same interview. Read More»

The future of the British grand prix was hanging in the balance last night after it emerged that the company holding the contract to stage the race at Donington Park from 2010 is being sued for almost £2.5m in outstanding rent.

Even more seriously, the circuit owners, Wheatcroft and Son, a building developer ñ are seeking as part of the legal action started at Derby County Court yesterday to cancel the 150-year lease they granted to the track operators, Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd.

Remind me again why the Canadian Grand Prix was taken away?

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With the recession biting car companies hard and nobody wanting to spend any kind of money it is a terrible time to be Honda for finding a buyer for their F1 outfit and a disastrous time for F1 fans with the real possibility that a team might drop out altogether. Honda today admitted they are struggling to find a buyer which smacks right in the face of what Bernie Eccelstone also said today when he announced that Honda turned down his offer to invest in the team. An investment that would have keep them going for the full year.

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