Ferrari Blow It

Post #38,378 by pwhysall 5/12/02 10:19:58 AM Reply	Ferrari Blow It I've just turned off the TV. I'm steaming mad. For those who don't follow F1, Barrichello led the race lights to flag, and then pulled over and slowed down to let Schumacher past for the win. Er, no. Ross Brawn, the technical director of Ferrari, said that winning the championship is the sole goal of Ferrari. Cool. I believe that's the goal of every However, I firmly believe that it must be done on the individual driver's merit - A win for Barrichello is a win for Barrichello, and quite simply, Schumacher should have driven faster. Ferrari have decided that they have a team consisting of one and a half drivers. Anything driver #2 does will be used to augment driver #1. Legal? Yes. Ethical? Sort of. Sporting? Fuck no. McLaren tried this stunt a few years ago when Coulthard pulled over for Hakkinen, and the team was derided by press and fans alike. It didn't happen again. Ferrari are making a mockery of the sport by not allowing their drivers to race each other, because at the end of the year when Schumacher lifts that trophy, he will know in his heart that this victory is not his. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #38,393 by Ashton 5/12/02 6:49:43 PM Reply	But.. but.. does this not follow utterly logically ?! .. as (everywhere in the world that I can see) "sport" has long ceased to be about the er "development of 'a sound mind in a sound body'" and has become 99.9%: The marketing of transitory "teams" which move from one locale to the other - depending upon which Corporation can seduce some local township into building the most palatial palace FREE! for their entirely Profit-driven 'sport'. Allegiances than coalesce around the new mercenaries -- and everyone gets to call them Our Team. Yay! Corporate non-ethic has become Our non-ethic. I note the fol-de-rol surrounding Soccer (Football) locally; it is no longer unusual to read of attacks by parents upon referees! in the US. Several deaths have occurred. (I am not making this up) So I ask: if.. the very idea of sportsmanship (as a worthy sort of behavior to inculcate in the young?) has now reached that level that one 'daleross' averred in a stupid Windoze thread eons ago: "..if it's legal it's ethical" (??) Then as to Corporate Ferrari and its Corporate 'Team' - what was your question again? Ashton ie Yes of course I agree with your complaint! It is plain fucking Ugly.. what brain-dead 'parents' are doing to US kids (the only ones close by) in the name of "sports" == mainly if not solely! for parent ego-gratification of the shallowest Bizness-level of thought. Both genders of parent, I hasten to add. Some parents of 'loosers' continue their browbeating of Their Own Kid\ufffd long after.. s/he failed to Conquer (prompting at least one suicide of which I am aware). We are driving Ourselves nutzo methinks -- with idiotic ideas of "competitiveness" 24/7 and the Billy-style of ethicsfree rationalizations all round. {sigh} (I wonder if I'd find a similar bunch of BS, were I to get it together for a trip to the Isle of Man for the TT races.. again?? :( Damn! I was lucky to experience some of the Good stuff before it was turned into pure Corporate Di$neyland Shit..
Post #38,449 by Another Scott 5/13/02 10:13:42 AM Reply	TheInquirer's take. [link\|http://www.theinquirer.net/13050210.htm\|Here]. Seems that AMD is a Ferrari sponsor. I enjoyed the last sentence. :-) Inq Factoid Sun sponsors the mirrors on McLaren F1 cars \ufffd a singularly pointless exercise as everyone else is in front of them these days Cheers, Scott.

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