F1 » Montezemolo: Singapore circus 'humiliating'

what a race I enjoyed every minute of it except the added carnival put on by the ham fisted Farrari team, I feared for every one else on the pit lane, and lets not forget points have been lost to teams for a lot less than this.
Di Monte was very quick to play down his teams ****up, and typical of a losing latin he blames everything but himself, I think it is time for the FIA and Farrari to go race themselves into history and let the rest form a new association, adding more races like Singapore.

It won't be the last time I post this - the only advantage F1 has over many many other racing formula is the at it IS F1. As an ON-TRACK spectacle it is waaaaay behind NASCAR, IRL, AMLS, Moto GP, BTCC, A1GP and others, and we (inc me) only watch it because of that nagging feeling that we are 'not in the club' if we don't. Also, the camera angles on sunday made the race look even duller than normal (thi was the case at Valencia too), there were way too many shots of cars crawling out of 70mph corners, BOOOOOORING!!!!! Those kerbcams they have in NASCAR etc bring the race to life, we see too little of that in F1.

john, you use the word race and then you ask "should the fastest car win". the answer is simple. YES. it is a RACE. anything else is just a show. i am sure that force india, honda etc all would like to win, but by being the fastest, and not because a safety car is deployed, allowing them to make up ground and places that they had not earned in the first instance..if all cars were equal, then the fastest DRIVER would win.

He has spoken good sense, whether or not you agree with him, ever since being involved with Ferrari F1 in the 70's. Just consider, for a moment, the quality of races at a track such as Spa, and then those at, say, Magny-Cours (or the two recent new street circuits). The design of the track is critical. The location may be absolutely spell-binding, the organisation immaculate, but if the cars CANNOT overtake, then all you have is a procession. It's not for nothing that Suzuka is such a great track - you have the best corners from the great tracks all together.

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I'm old-fashioned, but I want to see cars in their ideal element - flat through Eau Rouge, or Parabolica: scrabbling for grip around Pereltada (I think that's the right spelling). Anywhere that can show the skill of the drivers and the quality of the cars to their best effect should be the prime criteria. Fat chance of that though!!!

@ piercarlo etc:
Nascar is the most manipulated series in existence - the ads over here for it and the Craftsman truck series show only the wrecks to instill excitement - going round an oval is deadly dull - except for one class of racing - Outlaw midgets on dirt, which is spectacular - but mainly because the cars are so beautifully crude and simple.

He is a sore loser !!!!!!
Always wants eveything his own way.

Surely the lack of over-taking is down to the current aerodynamics of the cars rather than the circuits themselves, perhaps next year Valencia and Singapore will redeem themselves if the cars are able to effectively draft and slipstream as were being led to believe.

and if that doesn't work i advocate fitting sprinkler systems to all tracks and forcing wet races!

A dry race at Silverstone or almost any other track can be just as processional as Singapore. The safety car would not even have been an issue if they did away with re-fueling. They could keep the option tire rule but ditch the refueling before more people are hurt and more penalties for pitting under the safety car are handed out.

igor i like the way you reference the fastest cars as being "(read ferrari)" as it happens a mclaren was one of the fastest cars as well lets not forget the qualifying, and rich ard the only way the fastest car is going to win is if you put a driver in it that knows how to overtake a car in front alas there ferrari has lat itself down dramatically. So i would say the best driver deserves to win and thats what happened in singapore even though he did not have the fastest car