I have not posted anything for a couple of days because the only thing happening was the storm over Bernie Ecclestone's recent remarks regarding dictators. Contrary to what many believe, I do not think Bernie is so incredibly clever that everything he says is for a purpose - au contraire, it seems to me that his crass remarks are symptoms of a personality so lacking in common human decency that he does not understand how offensive his views are. They are hardly worth responding to, since they speak so eloquently of the moral bankruptcy of the little man who holds the purse strings of F1.
As for Ecclestone's explanation (not apology, note), it is entirely predictable that the blame should fall on our shoulders for not understanding his meaning. Ignoring his strange assertion that Hitler was somehow not responsible for the evils of his regime, we are supposed to see that a dictator can "get things done" more efficiently than a democracy can.
It is not the first time that Ecclestone has expressed his preference for a dictatorial form of government (presumably as long as he is the dictator), obviously because he thinks democracies spend most of their time in argument instead of getting on with the task in hand. But I would suggest that it is better that nothing is done, rather than the vile injustices perpetrated upon the innocent and powerless by dictators. Indeed, I would ask for one example, just one, of a dictator who did not achieve his ends through crimes against humanity and who did not bring about the eventual ruin of his country.
But enough of the little man - he disgusts me. It is only through the corruption and degeneracy of the FIA that he has been allowed to continue is his position for so long. And that decay of moral values within the governing body is evidenced yet again by Pitpass's article, 2010 F1 team selection - the cat is out of the bag. The story of how the selection process became a part of Mosley's political game against FOTA is worth reading for those still puzzled by the FIA's choice of new entrants to the sport.
I have written before about morality in F1 (Medals and Morality is just one example) and how the destruction of values and ethics within an organization begins at its head. Events of late have shown just how corrupt the governance of the sport has become and it has become obvious why FOTA's prime object is change in the way F1 is governed. The teams may not be models of purity themselves but, when confronted with the decay and rottenness at the heart of the sport, even they have been moved to say "Enough!"
Change is coming, whether Mosley and Ecclestone like it or not. Like little Hitlers in their bunkers they hang on desperately to their powers, spouting nonsense and threats, determined to survive somehow. But the world has had enough of them and they are yesterday's men - one way or another, change is coming. I can only hope that they do not manage to destroy F1 in their last days.