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Originally Posted by Graham
That "statement" is nothing more than a desperate attempt by the FIA to weasel out of any resonsibility. They claim that Michelin have "brought F1 into disrepute", but the FIA's behaviour makes this pale into insignificance.
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Agree completely. The FIA are acting in an appaling manner now rather than doing the right thing and trying to bring everyone back together to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The tyre rule should have been allow tyre changes on pit stops but not allowing to change type, so the extra element of keeping same type of tyre for race stays but it stays safe.
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I don't think that would have made a great difference to this race as Michelin were only able to bond the tyres for 10 laps, so you'd need 7 changes.
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Originally Posted by sherer
Michelin had never run an Indy since last year and obviously they had very litle data on the new surface unlike Bridgestone.. you can't expect them to just make a new tyre in 24 hours in a completely new way they would be even more dangerous
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From what I can make out this is exactly what they offered to do, but the FIA's position was that each team that used one of these tyres would be penalised for doing so. Damned if you, damned if you don't.
There have been lots of musings about a breakaway Formula 1 franchise (minus Ferrari by all accounts). I think this whole situtation might accelerate this, and we might get back to real motor sport again.