GP farce?
As I type this I’m sitting watching a 6 car GP. Michelin have a problem in that their tyres can’t cope with the banked corner #13. They have recommended to all of their teams (7 out of the 10 teams) that they don’t race following the failure of Ralfs tyre on Friday *unless* an extra chicane was added before the last corners.
This didn’t happen so 14 of the 20 cars pulled off on the parade lap 
There is an arguement that it is a problem for the michelin teams and why should the Bridgestone teams have to accept a change to the rules. I can see their point but having this race run with so few teams is a complete farce. F1 is not popular in the US but in the last few years has slowly started to build up a following - this will surely screw that completely. Talk of a second US GP in LasVegas is likely to remain just that. Of course, on the plus side it means that if we loose a GP it makes Silverstones future stronger (not that I really believe that talk of scrapping the British GP was ever anything more than Ecclestone willy waving).
If it was FIA who refused to allow the last minute rule change that would have allowed this race to happed then I hope that the splits in F1 that are rumoured for 2008 happen. FIA have royally screwed this up.
If it was the fact that Ferrari wouldn’t allow the change then I need another team to follow. I’ve always been a Ferrari fan since all I new was that I like “the red ones”. Barring technical faults they will pick up a 1-2 and close the lead on Alonso - something that wouldn’t have led them to this conclusion would it?…
Apparantly Frank Williams is now calling all the Michelin team principles to a meeting. Would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in there.
