Back in your box drivers!
Max Mosley has been making some surprisingly forthright comments about the increasing noise from the Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA) to do with safety. In his latest comments as reported by Autosport, he has essentially told them to back off, and that safety is the FIA’s technical experts responsibilities only.
“We will always listen to drivers, but the decisions must be ours. And if we have to lose a race or two or a few licences to make a point, we will. It will be better for the sport in the long run.”
Threatening to remove a licence is hardly the most conciliatory statement he’s ever made. He does have a point though, and the GPDA, either through bad PR or through design have become increasingly hard edged with their comments on the safety of certain circuits. There’s only a handful of drivers on the current grid that you could say were guaranteed a drive come what may, it’ll be interesting to see whether the other drivers have the bottle to challenge Max after this.
3 comments December 19th, 2006
