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Bahrain, lights out? or planes going straight back to Europe and avoiding like the plague?
First of all, I might change the name. but not yet, not before I decide on something half-decent.
Secondly, I fecking love Formula 1. Piss off if you don’t. Righty ho, lets venture back to last February when the Bahrain Grand Prix was postponed before being cancelled later on in the year due to the Arab Winter uprising (spring starts in march guys). On that occasion, the Bahraini Sunni Muslim government (the minority denomination) were screaming: “cancel us! we’re not worthy!” And they did. The whole community agreed that it was in the best interests of everybody that the people who gave Bernard Ecclestone Esq. his bags of money didn’t look mean and oppressive. Not good. HOWEVER, Bernie pisses money. Fact. Bahrain provide the largest single amount of that in terms of race fees. Fact. Formula One is NOT a sport. Fact. Formula One is a business that needs money to work and to look like a sport to us bleating sheep in front of our televisions (more on that later). Fact. However, the teams involved get more money from their sponsors that they do from FOM, the people who own the commercial rights to the sport, so it is in their best interests to be seen to all nicey nicey so it was perfectly fine to take such measures in 2011 because Bernie must have got enough money to survive one year with one less race than planned (Vladimir Putin played is part in that, sodding oligarch culture, I blame the communists.).
Fast forward to 2012 and as far as today. We are one day away from the start of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend and one week from the Scheduled start of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Important people are pointing fingers and shitting bricks. FOM and FOTA (Formula One Teams Association (a misleading name because a large number of teams left over the problem of money) have said that the FIA (the people who officially make the laws and sanction all the races, they also conveniently have Bernie boy in their ranks) are the only ones who have the power to call off the race. They went on a fact finding mission and they said that all was fine and dandy. Just to segue for a moment, did you know that Bahrain is one of the powerful countries within the FIA? Bizarre, huh? Anyway, one of the people who went there, Damon Hill, has said that “sport has to take a backseat” sense, at last! Alas, no. Not many people seem to give a monkey’s about it. Before i brush through teams’ and drivers’ views, let me tell you two fucking gems. Peter Taylor, former England Footballer and Manager, now heading the Bahrain national team has said that sport should come to Bahrain and that it would be good for the country. Now, I’m willing to bet my testicles that he lives somewhere on the Costa del Sol and he only turns up for training sessions and matches, in addition to the fact that he now probably swims in a pool of Bahrani Dinars thrown at him on an hourly basis by a young Shi’a slave boy he has christened Pepe le Bitch. Secondly this from three times Formula One world champion Sir Jackie Stewart:
“I think this has been taken rather largely out of context. It’s negative for the sport in general to cancel an event. And where would it end then - the Olympics, the World Cup? Formula 1 is worth a lot of money to the country and is like any other sport, it can bring people together. When all the trouble was going on in Northern Ireland we still had rugby and football matches going on.”
Yeah, seriously. Just because religion was involved. Formula One wouldn’t bring people together, for them it’s a sign of non - democratic decadence. Also, Sir Jackie, I think it must be the people who put the money in your bank account to promote the Bahrain Grand Prix who told you it it has been taken out of context. Caught red handed Sir.
The drivers are generally nonplussed due to the fact that they are powerless and so they have decided to leave it to the FIA. Red Bull Driver Mark Webber has expressed his concerns, but he’s Australian and has balls of steel, so sadly he doesn’t count. The teams will be under pressure from sponsors. well all but HRT and McLaren. HRT because they don’t have a sponsor (change the name guys, or you’ll have menstual women chasing you) and McLaren are half owned by the Bahrain Government. I will now bet my penis that within the week McLaren and their drivers will be eager to rev their way into the bloodshed because it’s all been “taken rather largely out of context”. Decisions, decisions.
Sadly, I think that there will be a race in Bahrain, but I’m unsure if I’ll watch. The last race back in 2010 was the most boring one I have ever witnessed, so if anything, guys THERE’S an incentive for you.
Ma’a salama
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What to expect from this.
Not too much in all honesty. Sorry to be slightly disappointing but the blog title is extremely misleading and all because of the guy in my description and the entertainment I gain from annoying him (sorry Tom). I will of course post stuff about my irreverent dislike for all things that sprung from Karl Marx’s
Communist Manifesto, sorry, spare toilet paper (the paperback version, of course). On a horrendously unrelated note I have just realized that the past 30 minutes have strangely disappeared. Anyhow, besides from pissing off lefties, I will more than likely end up posting rants about anything that has any kind of meaning to me. OOOHHHHH, Louis Theroux has a new show on the 19th, the day of my French test, how apt. SORRY! I did it again didn’t I? Back to the point at hand, there will be stuff about sport and music as well that is longer than the 140 characters my Twitter allows. Please, feel free to follow both this and my Twitter (look left).YOLO.
Only kidding, I hate Drake
Au Revoir!
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