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Following the departure of Honda, BMW, Bridgestone, Toyota and more sponsors than you could crash a Renault at, F1 has today announced that it is to withdraw from itself. F1 said today that you could pick any one of the… rubbish excuses given by the others (it’s the recession, we have achieved all we can, we are concentrating on our core business, we are being more green, we could not beat Douglas Bader in a one-legged race etc) but that the decision was final.
According to Auto und Sport magazine, BMW Sauber’s Japanese Grand Prix weekend has not got off to a good start, after a delivery truck on its way to the paddock managed to clip a low bridge, dumping eight engines on the ground.
BMW… boss, Mario Theissen, said “It was the worst damage to F1 equipment that we’ve ever seen.” Obviously he’s never had Nelson Piquet jnr on the payroll.
In a cruel coincidence, another truck delivering Robert Kubica to the paddock, also managed to drop him, with the Pole landing flat on his face from a height of ten feet. Initial observations were that the results were something of an improvement.
The quiet man of F1, Nick Heidfeld (you know the guy, funny voice, silly sunglasses, big beard, drives for BMW?) was so angry on Sunday after Adrian Sutil punted him out of the Singapore Grand Prix, that he very nearly… raised his voice a semi-octave and some observers thought they saw him move an eyebrow.
Heidfeld, who had been in F1 for three years before anybody even noticed he was there, was on course for his forty second consecutive race finish when Sutil cut up his BMW (now there’s a nice change) ending both of their races.
Nick, positively fuming, said that he thought that in addition to giving his countryman a $20,000 fine, officials should also give him a brain.
He is assuming of course that the FIA have any spare brains, which given the events of the last week or so, has to be deemed unlikely.
While BMW Sauber bosses have vowed to continue modifying the F1.09, Robert Kubica is said to be far from happy with their ideas so far…
BMW Sauber today announced, with its tail firmly between its legs, that they are to quit F1 at the end of the season. The long, rambling press release made no mention of the fact that the BMW board were just… plain fed up after a dire year (despite three years of success), instead giving us a load of cobblers along the lines of this gem: “Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility, this is an area in which we want to remain in the lead”
What rot – using the old ‘green excuse’ to bail out of F1, leaving hundreds of loyal Sauber employees, some of whom have stuck with the team, through thick and thin since 1993 on the dole queue – Peter Sauber must be delighted to see his legacy binned in an instant.
Still it could have been worse, BMW got all huffy with then engine partner, Williams, a few years ago when a takeover-merger was blown out of the water by Sir Frank. Good job too, as today could have been the end of the mighty Williams team instead of poor old Sauber.
At least another, far more decent German, sailed to the rescue today by announcing he would step in for an injured colleague out of loyalty to his team.
So for BMW, at least the back pages of tomorrow’s newspapers will be full of the news about Michael Schumacher’s return to Ferrari, rather than the dull excuses of a dull car company leaving F1.
In the face of what will no doubt be another trying weekend at the German Grand Prix, BMW’s Nick Heidfeld has decided to cheer himself up with a competition to design him a new helmet. The lucky winner will get two VIP tickets to… the race, where they will be able to watch their winning entry go round very slowly.
You can enter the competition via Heidfeld’s website. Here is our effort.
A truly disastrous showing for the German team at Monaco was “not the final straw for BMW’s management board” team boss Mario Theissen insists. However, an ill fated trip for the executives to the Champions League final in Rome was.
After his two drivers qualified 17th and 18th in Monaco, BMW boss, Dr Mario Theissen, has decided to fully concentrate on the 2010 car and introduce something more apt for the Turkish Grand Prix. Just as slow, but much more reliable..
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