Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] - Ecclestone gives the game away

pitpass.com
Ecclestone gives the game away
02/03/2004
It's only when you sit back and think about it that it hits you, square
between the eyes.
For longer than we care to remember we have accused Bernie Ecclestone,
Max Mosley and various team bosses of being 'economical with the truth'
when it comes to the tobacco issue.
The warnings that Europe faces the prospect of slipping to 'third world'
status within the next ten years, though according to our (admittedly)
ageing atlas, Monaco - bolthole for Mad Maxie Mosley and Choker (The
Strangler) Charlie Whiting - is still in Europe, unless that too is to
move to the Middle East.
The desire to see F1 visit new nations and cultures such as China, South
Korea, Russia, Turkey and India, even though the sport is still
dominated and run by (and for) predominantly white European and South
Americans.
The smokescreen - no pun intended - behind Mosley's rhetoric that F1 was
fully prepared to accept the tobacco sponsorship ban due to be
introduced at the end of 2006, then brought forward by the EU, forcing
the FIA President to warn that the sport might ignore the ban completely
and simply move to tobacco-friendly countries.
It's all absolute garbage, and Bernie has finally given the game away.
"If we lose tobacco sponsorship in Formula One there will be a rupture,"
he said at the weekend, as and reported on pitpass. "People don't
realise how bad it would be."
We do realise how bad it would be Bernie, and we thank you for finally
admitting that the whole thing is about tobacco and Formula One's
addiction to it.
Several teams seem to have made a go of existing without tobacco money,
WilliamsF1 actually securing sponsorship from a manufacturer of
anti-tobacco patches (oh the irony) and even a toy store. Teams like
Ferrari and McLaren however refuse to give up the habit.
Less tobacco money would lead to reduced expenditure and in time to a
more level playing field. But in the meantime Bernie, Max and certain
team bosses continue to feed us lies.
As long as there's a small island off the coast of the Antarctic, where
a flock of disinterested penguins can gather to watch a race on one of
Herman Tilke's emasculated little go-kart tracks, and as long as the TV
images can be beamed into 985 billion homes around the universe, these
people will continue telling us that black is really white.
What's even worse is that they think we're all too dumb to see it.
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 team bosses continue to feed us lies.
questo Giornalismo su AS (attuale) ce lo sognamo.
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 more level playing field.
Mica male, come conseguenza :-)))
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 Mica male, come conseguenza :-)))
Questo senz'altro. Ma il fatto che ci sarebbero meno soldi è tutto da
verificare e forse non così sicuro: sappiamo per certo che ci sono
sponsor, anche grossi, che non investono in F1 perché non vogliono
essere associati a prodotti del tabacco, senz'altro sulla stessa
macchina e forse addirittura in griglia su altre vetture. Quindi la
somma di una F1 senza sponsor tabaccai potrebbe pure riservare delle
interessanti sorprese, in un mondo in cui le aziende in crescita sono
quelle dell'elettronica e delle telecomunicazioni (dopo il mal di testa
post-bolla...)
Una volta l'immagine del pilota di F1 era quella del playboy, che beveva
e fumava e poteva promuovere certi prodotti. Ma diciamocelo, Kimi
Räikkönen vende meglio i computer o il latte che non sigarette o
whisky...
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