How bureaucratic rules are killing the sport
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Please try to imagine, Shakespeare had been forbidden writing. Mozart composing. And Edison and von Braun inventing. Then mankind not only had been robbed a big part of their culture, but the same never a light had risen to them. Once the church, theirselves lead by insanity, had made Galilei to remain silent by the Inquisition to be feared.
Formula One has caught theirselves by the new rules, Niki Lauda realized in spring 2005 made bitter. But the regimentation already had begun a lot earlier in international motorsport. Since the small-time advocate Max Mosley, ideologist and demagogue in personal union, had installed himself as Grand Inquisitor of his sport at the beginning of the nineties caused by very primitive reasons lying in his family, the whole business is a slave a bureaucratic rules. The regulations of modern Formula One are so extensive and complicated like the German tax laws - that nearly had brought the country to bankruptcy. The egomaniac, who never had achieved a good performance during his more than 60 years living, often loves to play the role of the strong leader preferring to make angry the heads of big international groups especially by his primitive hunger for power. Under Mosley´s only poor democratic legitimated functionary dictatorship the most future innovations had been banned. The sad climax of that development were the two dead drivers of Imola in 1994.
In the old days the creative ideas of single personalities like Colin Chapman or Mauro Forghieri had brought very positive influence both to the technology and the sport, but today at the same place there are anonymous collectives often hindering theirselves. Instead of great solutions (all killed at their very beginning) there are only small steps forward paid by enormous sums of money standing in no relation to the results. While the competition was determined by elegant concepts of charismatic men in the past, modern Grand Prix Racing is reduced to aerodynamics and tyres by the strict regulations. Billions of dollars are spent senselessly in wind tunnels and at tyre testing, because cheaper innovative ideas are not allowed to be realized. The single technician is very specialized for many years, but at the same time incapacitated and no longer able of global thinking. The castrated Grand Prix needs the castrated engineer living at the limit of legality sometimes also crossing it. The explosion of costs in Grand Prix Racing is caused by the rules, not by the carmakers very often critized spending billions into a terible arms race. The stricter and more bureaucratic the laws, the more expensive is the development, the more destorted is the competition and the worse becomes the sport. Systems working completely electronically in the past, today have to be brought to do nearly the same job mechanically. It is perverted to employ 1000 people for entering two racing cars only, employèes being needed to do more important jobs within their companies. Smaller teams have got no chances anymore by the ban of creative moments and so they are falling into bankruptcy. Cooper, Brabham and Lotus are still the past. Rear engine, monocoque chassis or carbon fibre technology never had been introduced under a Mosley administration. It is both an illusion and a mad idea to cut costs by restrictive rules. Reality teaches us, that the contrast of it is true. The collective is killing the individual and at the end there is the ruin, that is governed by the mob. The giant empire of the Soviet Union, strictly ruled by ideology and unflexible laws, had gone the same ways as the Kirch group, that had been determined to become a monopoly on the media sector. The pseudo-intellectual Mosley had learned absolutely nothing from history, because his suggestion of a socialistic uniform racing car with standardized systems for tyres, brakes and gearboxes seem to come from some kind of sport fascism. Grand Prix Racing is an elite sport being fundamentally different from the popular sport of soccer. Stereotyping and proletarianization of the last decades, caused by the business interests of the profit shark Ecclestone, have brought great damage to the sport as an institution. It is still robbed of it`s nature and it`s soul. We have not got a fiery stallion anymore, but a lame gelding or maybe an eunuch. Some of the circuits only have to be supplied with a roof to make the people getting protected against the weather. The heroic fighter in the cockpit batteling for the power and the glory both of his company and his nation more and more is replaced by the feminine coward, who is prattling the advertisement statements in television being created by the public relations departments of his company. Bravery has become a foreign word in this sport inspite of the fact, that VIRTUS is coming from VIR and that means: man.
No, in the old days not all the things had been better. But you need high technology different cars for exciting races, not cloned wind tunnel monsters. Today´s Grand Prix racing cars with their deformed and unnatural dimensions are looking like having made a first trip through a scrap metal press. Already Montesquieu had warned of creating too much and too extensive laws. Functionaries ever had been suspect to Tucholski. Only dictators are forbidding men to artiiculate their thoughts and to transfer them into certain projects. We need inspirations and visions for the future of Grand Prix Racing. We also need environment and ressources protecting technologies giving incentives to the publice to buy and to use such technologies. Restrictive regulations are only neccessary on the sector of safety. Otherwise every currently available technology has to be put into a Grand Prix racing car. There must be absolutely no limits on thinking or acting concerning that. The best way for reducing costs is the free competition bringing man from Stone Age into civilisation. In 2006 Grand Prix Racing, the toughest contest in the international world of sport, will become 100 years of age. Tradition and history gives us the duty to protect the legacy of our fathers, who once had to cope with a lot tougher conditions in their lives. Who wants to organize the future, has to be open for everything. The limits of man only are created by God.
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and invest in reserch into new safety things for the walls, there must be something better than a stack of tyres, they have been around for a VERY long time.
