The Weekly Grapevine
Your weekly dose of rumours, speculations and analysis
A week ago this column ended with a one-line paragraph:
And still Silverstone awaits grand prix extinction. What a mess.
Wrong on one count; doubly right on the other...
That Silverstone should suddenly be acceptable to Bernie Ecclestone after years and years of, to coin a phrase, malignment, was the single biggest indicator that FOTA's decision to usurp the FIA by announcing plans to jump ship hours before president Max Mosley arose on the very day he was due to announce Formula 1's definitive 2010 entry list had dealt a serious blow to their long-standing double act.
The entire matter has been diligently reported within these pages, so it is no longer a matter of analysing what happened, but one of where to now for FOTA, FOM, the FIA and, above all, the sport.
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