Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is confident his proposal for the world drivers’ championship to be decided by gold medals awarded to race winners will be implemented next season.
Former team boss Eddie Jordan, while not exactly telling Bernie Ecclestone to “bugger off,” reading between the lines indicates pretty much the same thing.
“I think they are a nonsense,” Jordan told BBC radio on Wednesday.
“I can’t possibly believe he’s thinking straight, especially on this one. His focus must be on cost-cutting and nothing else. The rest is just dressing it up.”
(I’d like to take this opportunity to remind Mr. Jordon any references to “dressing up” risks having Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley make an appearance - ed)
“It’s going to happen. All the teams are happy, we’re happy and the (governing) FIA are happy,” Ecclestone said.
“The whole reason for this was that I get fed up with people talking about no overtaking. The reason there is no overtaking is nothing to do with the circuits, very little to do with the cars, it’s that drivers don’t need to overtake.
“If you are in the lead and I’m second, I’m not going to take a chance maybe falling off the road and doing something silly to get two (more) points,” added Ecclestone.
(Geesh - I hate interrupting like this but… Bernie if that’s the reason for no overtaking in F1 then what’s with all the bullshit about structural, and very costly, changes to the car to assist passing? - ed)
“But if I now need to get gold medals because the most gold medals win the championship, then I will overtake you, I promise. And that’s what will happen,” Bernie continued.
(NO, nitwit. Your silly IOC-type hardware isn’t needed, just make a win worth substantially more point-wise, say a 10-15 point spread, and be done with it - ed)
Jordan said however that points were of vital importance to teams and drivers further down the pecking order and trying to get noticed.
“One point is as important to those teams as a win is to McLaren and Ferrari,” he said.
“He (Ecclestone) is tinkering with something on which he has lost the understanding. He thinks only wins matter.”
(Shocking, Bernie has no understanding? No wait… that’s not only normal, he can’t ‘lose” what he never had - ed)
And BTW, someone remind Bernie there used to be a different point system that favored the winner more than the current system. It went something like, 9-6-4-3-2-1.
Crazy thought, but maybe in lieu of a Gold Medal F1 could revert back to that system.
Tags: Bernie Ecclestone, Eddie Jordon, F1
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Link | November 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm