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June 20, 2005
Grand Farce at Indianapolis
There were multiple points of failure that let to the farce that was the 2005 United States Grand Prix. The finger pointing from the teams, the FIA, Bernie Ecclestone, Michelin, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was only usurped by the finger pointing from the 100,000+ fans in attendance. Here are just few of the reasons why all of this happened:
Culpability - Michelin screwed up. Sure, you can talk about the poor resurfacing of the track, the tire problems experienced by both the Indy Racing League and NASCAR during tests, and the possible forewarning Bridgestone had thanks to their stateside brand Firestone. But at the end of the day Michelin came to Indianapolis with two tire choices that were failing under loading. Given the two tire failures during Friday practice and further investigation they could not guarantee the safety of their tires in race conditions. Bridgestone got it right. Michelin got it wrong.
Chicanery - Michelin informed the FIA in writing on Saturday that they could not guarantee the tires would hold up "unless the vehicle speed in turn 13 can be reduced." A volley of letters continued until the FIA eventually said "your teams have a choice of running more slowly in Turn 12/13, running a tyre not used in qualifying (which would attract a penalty) or repeatedly changing a tyre (subject to valid safety reasons)." Michelin eventually lobbied "for a chicane to be installed prior to Turn 13 and nine of the teams were prepared to run under these conditions even forgoing championship points or by allowing non-Michelin teams to take top positions on the grid." The FIA declined the request.
Compromise - Although the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was willing to build the chicane the FIA turned that request down and threatened not to sanction the event if a chicane was built. Michelin simply could not guarantee the reliability and safety of their tires and were not willing to open the liability floodgates. Red Bull Racing driver David Coulthard put it best when he said, "The reality is that mature adults were not able to come to a resolution that would have allowed us to put on the show that everybody wants to see in Formula One." A standoff between the FIA and the Michelin shod teams ensued.
Control - The FIA controls the rules. Bernie Ecclestone controls the money. The teams want more control of both. The battle for control at the USGP escalated to a behind-closed-doors meeting between Ecclestone and several of the team principals. According to reports Ecclestone essentially told them "you are going to get in that car and race" and they called his bluff. The FIA wasn't going to budge and the teams weren't going to budge either. There would be no chicane and the teams running on Michelin tires would do the bare minimum to uphold their contractual obligations under the Concorde Agreement by taking the formation lap. In that moment, most of the teams were throwing down the gauntlet to take back control of Formula One.
Communication - The world press and media in the United States have had a field day with the entire fiasco. The event got little coverage in the US until video of a near-empty grid and fans throwing bottles were broadcast. Suddenly morning news programs, sports talk shows, and the major networks in the US covered the Formula One fallout at Indianapolis. This is not the kind of coverage F1 was hoping for but you reap what you sow. Ecclestone had complained about the poor promotion and publicity surrounding the event earlier in the week. Be careful what you wish for Bernie.
Ferrari scored a 1-2 finish and Jordan's Tiago Monteiro took the podium for the first time in his career. All of this was overshadowed by a seismic shift in Formula One's balance of power that has been building up for quite some time. On Sunday there were no real winners...just losers all the way around. This is only going to get more interesting...stay tuned...
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I sent the following to a number of contacts related to the Formula 1 / Michelin thing. Only heard back on refund instructions which I did not need. Thought these ideas might do some good here.
Robert Reddick
Charlotte NC
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I've been following the tire story from the US Formula 1 at Indy. I have a suggestion that can both calm the storm and secure the future of F1 in the US.
Michelin has already announced refunds, and a give away, but what if the stakes we're increased... Say a money back program with several options for fans. Money back for 05 AND a free seat in 06, plus the opportunity to pre-purchase seats for 07 and 08 during the redemption process.
Pre-selling events is a good thing. Fans not only get compensated, they get a way to invest back into F1. With Michelin's and the fans investment F1 Indy might even sell out for 4 years solidifying the circuit for the near term even raising the issue of a second US race.
In preparing to market in 06, Michelin should consider educational themes and work to help fans understand the groups products, the science behind F1 rubber, and the facts behind the 05 safety decisions.
F1 can stand a shake up and Michelin can take the heat, but the optimistic view may be that for Michelin, this can be an investment with both financial and ethical rewards.
Posted by: Robert Reddick at Aug 5, 2005 11:17:12 PM
Jesus Christ is a false god.
At best all Christians can hope for is partial credit.
Program on the emergence of civilization.
"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. "
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy/Levels of positioning.
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere
Terrestrial management/positioning:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - The seamless transition between Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar may be a clue alluding to a partnership.
6. Mafia - the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying "He has more money than god." There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says "I'm too old and rich for this."
This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
20 cent/hour Chinese labor, 50 cents for material.
An $80 sweater costs less than a dollar; tribute kicked upstairs vindicates the creative accounting.
I don't want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe. But these individuals become wealthy exploiting those they hurt.
They have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won't help people. They say only good (favored) would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.
The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.
I offer an example of historical proportions:::
People point to Walmart and cry "anti-union".
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family's problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an environment where there are fewer hurdles.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people's belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the indistry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.
The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the disfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.
The coining of the term "Uncle Sam" was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton's WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.
They desire a system based on duality:::good and evil. They seek to set up a system of two participants, assign them polar opposites, and give people clues alluding to their affiliation:::
Pepsi and Coke
BestBuy and CircutCity
Energizer and Duracell
Republican and Democrat; democracy is the true evil and these groups facilitate the will of the throne who holds americans in disfavor
The list goes on and on:::
AMD and Intel
Apple and Microsoft
Lowes and HomeDepot
Sam'sClub and Costco
WellsFargo and BofA. For the longest time in CA these two banks reigned supreme.
Pier1 and CostPlus
Borders and Barnes&Noble
PetCo and PetSmart
The truth is decisions are made on each individual based on family history and individual charecter and they either create desire with AI or, in this age, tell them to buy from good or evil corporations, depending on the decison, then use that business relationship as positioning to justiy their decision.
Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals, malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they decided who they didn't want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren't their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.
Royalty is the correct way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient's hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people. This is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.
Jesus Christ is a false god. All Christians can recieve is partial credit, at best.
The Catholic Church in the tretcherous 20th century teaches of a begnign, forgiving god when quite the opposite is true.
And now they do it to disfavored people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.
The seperatist churches formed because many conciencious thrones wanted their people to earn more than the paltry credit offered via worship through the Catholic Church. But because they were white the throne required worship to stay within Christianity.
Simpson's foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. "It's always the one you least suspect."
"You'll see lots of nuns where you're going:::hell." St. Wigham, Helloween VI:::missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.
The advent of the modern Christmas was a brilliant move. It created a vested interest among those who would prefer the Church be destroyed::::
As goes the Catholic Church so goes the majority of annual retail sales.
The similarity between the names "Santa" and "Satan" is no coincidence.
Jews maim the body formed in the image of "god", and inflicted circumcision upon all other white people.
I think about how Jews were used to create homosexuality among Slavics, supposedly retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Centuries of slavery in Egypt proves their disfavor.
For their suffering the Jew leaders were granted the right to prey on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite by imposing a false god upon white people, a recurring aspect of the elite's methodology.
Jews were ostracised for a reason.
There are consequences for the peasant's resistance:::
1. Labor unrest caused the world at war.
2. Black militancy ignited the crack epidemic and gang-related deaths.
3. Women's rights/sexual freedom produced Roe v Wade and women's exclusion from contention for Planet Immortality. But on the bright side peasants don't go. Money is one way of indicating favor, and if you're not wealthy you don't have favor, so don't sweat it::you weren't going anyways. "We're leading a lot of people on."
4. Vietnam war protests - "Era of evil republicans."
Retribution for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the Korean War got the disfavored United States into this socially depraved environment in the latter 20th century because the disfavored attacked an antient, revered peoples. Our continued presence keeps us in trouble.
When the disfavored americans attack the wrong people again, as they suggested they will, in Korea or elsewhere, they will pay dearly.
The disfavored americans HAVE attacked the wrong people, just as the Soviets did 25+ years ago::Afghanistan. Except our punishment has yet to be administered.
An evil republican will come forth to wreck havock upon the disfavored. The hunting incident was designed to ruin one possible candidate among his contingency, but others wait in the wings.
All peoples are ranked in terms of favor and disfavor. And when the disfavored abuse those with favor there is hell to pay.
All the groups mentioned throughout are necessary to justify the will of the managing species. They conceive a strategy, devise a plan yet need a way to implement it, and without these groups the managing species would be exposed in the course of execution. So, based upon their rank they are assigned goals to accomplish and are rewarded with favors.
I question if we would experience global warming if they didn't terraform with an ultimate goal of destroying disfavored human life on planet earth::::they terraform the weather as they did in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina (and lots of other examples) and justify it with behavior like instructing their petroleum friends to repress alternative technologies and encourage waste.
This is all happening shortly after the Exodus of 2000 (clues::Hong Kong, Panama Canal) for a reason::: they are INFLICTING it upon us, they are hastening closure. Everybody they care about has come up, replaced by clones, and they want to proceed in haste.
Just as favored European peoples got out before the ugliness of WWII, the semi-favored within the US got out before 9/11. The antient Palestinian Empire holds a claim on all who remain because of Iraq.
Armeggedon isn’t about the end of the world. Armeggedon is about the death of the disfavored left behind. And they weren’t lying::this time it is going to happen with fire.
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