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Given that Formula 1 is punted as the world's largest continuous sporting block, and third only to the Olympic Games and football's World Cup when measured over four-year cycles, it was perhaps understandable that the scandal engulfing FIFA could be on the radar of motorsport's premier category and its governing body, the FIA.
Whether or not either metric is correct is another question, for figures published last week by England's Premier League show that the domestic football championship (albeit one with global reach) enjoys double the annual turnover of F1, with its 20 competitor clubs benefiting not only vastly more equitably but from substantially greater shares of a substantially larger pot.
That is, though, meat for a future column, particularly as FIA president Jean Todt was last Friday questioned in Moscow during Formula E's visit to Russia - a country whose 2018 World Cup is one of those linked to FIFA's bribery claims - whether he feared motoring's world body could be similarly affected, particularly with regard to F1.
