China F1

While Red Bull’s Adrian Newey reacted to the appeal court ruling on the legality of the Brawn car by not going to China and getting back to the drawing board, Renault boss, Flavio Briatore seems to have given up any chance of the world title.

In an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, Flav has a good dig at the Brawn drivers calling one as slow as a post and the other all but retired.

“In three or four grands prix, the title will be already decided, and I can’t see what interest TV and spectators can have in seeing a race when Button has 60 points, [Kazuki] Nakajima 50, and someone else 80: it’s better to listen to a race like that on the radio, and watch anything but that”

No sour grapes there then.

Anyway, this is all becoming a bit dull, so to cheer you up here is a picture of a nice rear diffuser.

When the Formula One Team’s Association was formed there were many who reckoned it would only be a matter of time before normal service resumed and they would all be at each others throats again.

Following ‘Diffusergate’ the insults are now flying thick and fast in the Shanghai paddock, with Renault boss, Flavio Briatore, leading the way, comparing Ross Brawn to a chinese taxi driver while Brawn reckons Flav should change his medication, with Sir Frank Williams adding that the Italian would not recognise a diffuser if it was stuffed with £5 notes.
Perhaps the only sensible ‘person’ in all of ,this is Bernie Ecclestones dog, Napoleon, who according to ‘The Times’, manages to eat any correspondence from FOTA before his master has a chance to put it in the shredder. There’s a good boy…..

You would have thought,  that after more than four years of trying, winning a Grand Prix would be enough to make Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz, feel rather happy with life.

Sadly not.

Despite Sebastian Vettel’s Chinese GP victory, Mateschitz, watching on TV at home in Salzburg, was far from chuffed when instead of the Austrian anthem ‘Land der Berge, Land am Strome’ a rather mournful ditty about mountains and lakes, he got ‘God Save The Queen’, a far more inspiring but definately not Austrian tune.

We know which one we prefer but in any case, after years of hearing the Italian national anthem week in week out surely anything is an improvement?