G.P. in the "Real" World - What Would You Do?

[petek]

From the "one more thing dept.":

Gracious Professionalism is alive and well at teams Minardi and Jordan. Both of these Bridgestone-shod teams were willing to accept a compromise to allow all teams to compete. To put this in context, Minardi is a small, underfunded team which usually qualifies at the back of the pack and seldom finishes in the points and Jordan, thought successful in the past, has been struggling in the mid to rear of the field the last couple of years. These teams had a lot to gain by running without the Michelin teams, but still voted for putting on a show for the fans. I guess you could say these two teams were the real winners, since they exhibited gracious professionalism and got to finish in the top 6.

I think this whole schmazzle is a good (bad?) example of the kind of conflict between G.P. and business and personal interests that can arise, and how there may not be one "right" way to deal with the conflict.

And BTW, I agree that Ferrari made the "correct" business decision - I just think it would have been classier for them to side with the fans.

[Andrew Rudolph]

I felt that the FIA made the correct decision. If someone shows up to a race and thier tire choice was wrong, and they cant race, then they the show goes on.

I dont think that the tire companies or FIA should reimburse the fans either. Its just how racing goes, if there was a huge reck on turn one and 12 racers were taken out the race would continue.

I found it kind of ironic that michelin had tire problems since they have been dominating the season, and bridgestone has been doing pretty aweful. I think that the tire rules for this year have been aweful, especially seen 2 races ago when the leader lost on the last lap because his tire had a flat spot and broke the car. Granted they could design this into the cars, but i mean common they could at least let them have 2 sets of tires.

[santosh]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rudolph

I felt that the FIA made the correct decision.......
I found it kind of ironic that michelin had tire problems since they have been dominating the season, and bridgestone has been doing pretty aweful.

I feel that the FIA did make the correct descision. and I had to agree with that second point about Bridgstone Making the fall of Ferrari.

Would it be fair to mess up a teams chances of winning because they were prepared. Rules are rules. I can see why ferrari didn't want the Chicane. Plus, I mean look at Ferrari, if FIA had more GP, Ferrari would have some tires that they could run with and win with because they would have dropped Michelin after the first or second race, and picked up Bridgstone, but rules are rules, That is for another debate. But I do believe that the FIA made the correct descision. I also believe that the fans should recieve some reimbursement from Michelin.

[Kyle Love]

Michelin has made their decision . Attached is a pic of a cartoon that was in the June 21st edition of the Indianapolis Star. For the newest updates referring to the F-1 fiasco please visit http://www.formula1.com for any updates.

[Kyle Love]

I just heard this on the news, Michelin will refund ALL tickets. Great job on their part!

[santosh]

Wow. That is very surprising to me. I am glad the fans got their money back, but I mean come on. I fully believe that Bridgestone should hav ben doing the refunding. They are th ones who came unprepared.

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by santosh

Wow. That is very surprising to me. I am glad the fans got their money back, but I mean come on. I fully believe that Bridgestone should hav ben doing the refunding. They are th ones who came unprepared.

Bridgestone was the one who brought the right tire...all 6 of their cars started...Michelin had 0 of 14 cars start, so I am not surprised at all, but I think you just had your tire makers backwards.

[KyleGilbert45]

It's good to here that Michelin has decided to refund tickets. I hear that it's going to be somewhere in the ballpark of $13million dollars. It should also be interesting to see how Michelin (or whoever) is going to implement such a large refund program, since I'm pretty sure this has never been done in the sports/entertainment area.