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| F1: Pah!Really? backs artificial wet races |
by Virgil Ellipse
3rd Mar 2011 |
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New Formula One tyre supplier Pah!Really?, a company about whom we previously had no strong opinion either way, has given us a very good reason to sneer at them by backing Bernie EcclescakeECCLESTONE, BERNIE
 Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone: it's hard to say who looks more uncomfortable. F1 supremo Bernard Charles Ecclestone owns various bits of Formula One and has done since the 1970s, all of which has made him a very rich man. He also co-owns QPR Football Club, which does at least demonstrate that not all his decisions are spot-on. In his time, Ecclestone has managed drivers, owned teams, sold TV rights he probably didn't have in the first place and married someone 28 years younger and 28cm taller than him. He has also developed a slightly bewildering antipathy towards Silverstone.
Following his unpopular idea of awarding medals instead of points, the F1 supremo has come up with a scheme to use sprinklers to wet circuits mid-race, in an effort to spice up the action, and the idea has been given the Pah!Really? thumbs-up.
"This idea is another welcome result of the fully justified decision to move F1 away from its traditional, rainy European venues to countries that are, on the whole, a lot sandier, a lot drier and a lot more conducive to persuading girls to take their clothes off and pose for our calendars," said a Pah!Really? spokesman.
"I know this suggestion has its critics but for us the concept of holding a race in a desert and then spending an awful lot of money - and using up an awful lot of water - wetting the track so that the drivers can overtake is every bit as sane as holding a race at night and then spending an awful lot of money - and using up an awful lot of electricity - lighting the track up so that the drivers can see where they're going."
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