F1 » Montezemolo: Singapore circus 'humiliating'

it's the 1st time singapore hold race for F1 and i believe a great heart would be understanding enuff that they will make it better the next time round.. instead of looking at own mistakes and rectifying frm it, the president chose to point the finger elsewhere and pushing their LOST at others but themselves.. quite a bad example as a leader i would sae..

Mr Montezemolo is not a graceful loser.

As for the pundits who think the Singapore street course is "*****." OH PLEASE. Magny Cours and the new Hockenheim is a snooze fest in comparison.

Tiger had been the king of the jungle for age and still dominating it. Along the way came lion and cheetah. All hunger for food. On Sep 28, they came to Singapore to hunt for food. All, having an equal chance as the hunting ground is wide open. Currently, lion and cheetah caught their prey and filled up their stomach... The 2008 tiger now is blaming that the hunting ground is humilitating to hunt because they didnt caught any prey. (Not to mention that they took the whole sewage pipe with them too.)

Quentin
No - not at all - yellows for accidents - of course. But there have been instances where a full course yellow has been applied for something that does not warrant it - where a car has spun harmlessly out of the way, or spun, collected it without hitting anything and then pitted. The organisers have more-or-less admitted they would act to bring the field together toward the end of a race to make the finish more exciting. When CART split, they were the premier series in the US as far as viewing figures were concerned. Nascar grabbed their chance and re-branded their series into the present format. And very successful it is, commercially speaking.

It wasn't funny on sunday because I was concerned one of the crew had been injured, but I've downloaded the whole pitstop onto my phone and I've laughed so much my cheeks are aching. Especially the pit crew sprinting down the pit lane. Does anyone know if there is footage of the McLaren crew cheering them on? That would be priceless. Lets all just prey that at the next GP, we don't miss Ferrari pitstops due to adverts.

now im a big ferrari fan, but i have to say singapore was spectacular, i dont think the cars have ever looked so spectacular, it fully showed what f1 was about and perhaps the race wasnt too exciting without piquets crash but there was overtaking which is more than can be said for other circuits and the cars with the sparks and flames looked stunning

what was humiliating tho was ferraris complete and utter balls up of the entire weekend a case of sour graps from mr montezemelo which is a shame cos the race and event was a smashing suceess i thought

morgan rees
i dont want to sound rude or anything but what you are saying is by throwing a yellow flag for a crash or debris on the track when cars are doing close to 200mph to stop someone leading is manipulating a race i think that if you think like that then it applies to all forms of motorsport.
accept F1 as they apply penalties after the race to fix a championship how wrong is that as massa only received his drive through because he was last and made no difference to him if he was nearer the front it would have been a different story i believe.
anyway thats motorsport nobody is going to agree with all the decisions made regarding penalising someone no matter what they like watching

@ quentin
Any series where yellow periods are "introduced" to ensure no one driver runs away with a race, where cars that show a marked advantage are handicapped to equalise performance is manipulated. Nascar freely admit they are there to put on a show for the fans and TV etc - and commercially it works. But compare it to how it used to be in the 60's where they truly were "stock cars" funded and raced by the manufacturers, and it's completely different. Not surprisingly, although "over there", I'm not American. Oh, and by the way, a lot of areas outside the "good ol' boys" states will agree with this...

just check the other story of Singapore and Montezemolo. He wasn't happy with street circuits even before the race ....

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo : "When you race on a track that would work better as a circus ring or something along those lines, anything can happen..."

If Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen are racing on tracks which should be used for the circus, we need clowns at the Ferrari pit-stop to entertain us before anything can happen.

What a "sour grape" sore loser!