Payback Time
When Max Mosley first ran for the role of FIA president, in 1991, his election manifesto stated: "Unnecessary controversy should be eliminated. Management by consensus is needed, with less talk and more listening. The president should avoid unnecessary polemics." 14 years later, this all sounds like a good joke. But was the 2005 US Grand Prix debacle really the FIA's fault? Was there anything Mosley and his men could have done to avoid it? Tony Dodgins returns from Indianapolis with some conclusions of his own
Oh dear, oh dear. As I began writing, we were 40 minutes into the US Grand Prix, the six cars were circulating, the paying public - that is, those left - were jumping up and down, literally, in the grandstands. Many were heading for the exits.
I had just returned to the press room from the paddock, which is a walk away at Indianapolis. En route I was in an elevator with five burly brown-uniformed cops. Between the first and second floors, one of them drawled, "Ye-aawl under arrest!"
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