The Strategy Group strikes again
Who was responsible for the debacle that was qualifying? Well in my view it was the Strategy Group, the new qualifying system came directly from them. Surely it is now time to get rid of this bullshit "democracy" in F1 and for the parties involved to concentrate on their individual jobs. That is the teams concentrate on going racing, the FIA should concentrate on enforcing the rules (set by the FOM), licensing and arbitration, FOM should concentrate on making the rules and the show and the circuit promoters should concentrate on promoting the race in there country. The F1 Commission and the World Motor Sport Council should have nothing to do with F1 as both are pointless and just rubber-stamping organizations with no real power, influence or reason for being.
At its most basic Formula 1 is a business, its business just happens to be motor racing which is classed as a sport, what other billion dollar business is run like a democracy? I hope that the European Competition Directorate does get involved and puts an end to this bullshit once and for all (I'd rather it was done from with-in the sport but if it takes an outsider than all well and good). One only needs to look at what democracy has done to healthcare and education in so call democracy's around the world, some here today gone tomorrow politician becomes minister for health or education and decided to make a name for themselves but adding targets, changing targets, reorganizing funding, changing policy etc while at the sharp end thing go to shit. Get a fucking grip Bernie and sort this bullshit out before you kill the sport and your goose. (sorry about that, I don't like posting politics in the F1 forum, but I believe it needs to be said
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EDit, the drivers (through the GPDA) have taken the unusual step of writing a letter calling for it to "restructure its governance"
BBC link here.
Driver of the day results
Not only was the new qualifying under scrutiny but so is Driver of the day. According to some computer savvy people Rio Haryanto with 22,000 votes won, but the people who run the poll say that bots were used to vote for him. Apparently the rolling results return behind the scenes and can be viewed in the chrome browser if you look at "web inspector".
This is a view of the votes cast during the vote using web inspector (interesting that Kvyet has more votes than the drivers that raced).
This is what the result was if you looked behind the screen and included all the votes:
