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The World Motor Sport Council have announced the calendar for the 2015/16 season of the FIEh?FIA
Max Mosley's preferred option for the location of the new FIA offices in Amsterdam. The FIA (or Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile to give it its full, inexplicably french, name) is an ominous association formed to represent motorists and motoring organisations. Its headquarters are at 8 Place de la Concorde, Paris (ring top bell), coincidentally just up the rue from one of the city's best bordellos. The federation acts as the governing body for a number of motorsport series and championships, mostly in a venal or, if we're feeling charitable, incompetent manner. It should not be confused with the Fédération Internationale de l'Alcosport, which governs Drink-A-Long-A-Grand-Prix almost as badly. Comprising 222 member organisations, the FIA can also boast a Senate, a Court of Appeal and a General Assembly and it wouldn't take a stretch of the imagination to see its activities as part of a sinister plan to get itself recognised as a sovereign state in its own right. It's not a million miles from how Hitler started, that's all we're saying. Its decisions have at times left the FIA open to accusations of favouritism and manipulation and its credibility wasn't helped any by revelations that its married president, Max Mosley, was partial to sado-masochistic orgies involving more tarts than you can fit on one hand. Mosley, seeing no incompatibility between his behaviour and his position, failed to tender the resignation that many were keenly anticipating. They claim to do a lot of work on road safety but we've never knowingly seen any of their campaigns. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper Formula e championship.
The series, which was won in 2014/15 by Half-Nelson PiquetPIQUET, NELSINHO
Nelsinho Piquet, a man who routinely walks further than he drives during a race weekend. Nelson Angelo Piquet has six names, although we've picked his three best known ones. He is commonly known as Nelson Piquet Junior and also as Nelsinho Piquet, which he has asked people not to use any more. Nelsinho is the son of Nelson Piquet, who claimed three world championships and made no friends along the way. His father's money meant that he could race for his own team all the way up to GP2, after which things get a bit expensive even for multi-millionaires. His last championship was in 2004 when he won the British F3 title, although the perenially under-funded and criminally under-rated Ulsterman Adam Carroll heroically took the fight to the last event at Brands Hatch, about which we could go on but probably shouldn't. Little Nelson competed in GP2 and A1GP, before curiously being picked up by the Renault F1 équipe, first as a test driver and subsequently as a racer, where his disappointing form was about what many of the more astute paddock observers had been expecting. The perception of him as a sulky rich kid was given further weight when, after being sacked by Renault part way through 2009, he went running to the FIA with allegations of race-fixing, claiming that some bigger boys had forced him to crash deliberately at Singapore in 2008, in order to put team-mate Fernando Alonso on exactly the right strategy to claim the win. The revelation was indeed shocking. We'd all got so used to seeing Piquet crash that believing he'd done so on purpose was difficult to reconcile. The fall-out saw Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds lose their jobs and, if there's any justice, brought an end to Nelsinho's career in the top flight. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper by the judicious management of power and the avoidance of deliberately crashing into anything, will comprise 11 races in almost as many locations, with Britain again completing the season with a double-header in London's glamorous Battersea Park.
Other popular venues from the inaugural season will be revisited, including Uruguay's famous Pie del Fray Bentos circuit, plus the addition of a new race in Paris, france.
A surprising addition to the calendar, as can be discerned from the map (right?), is the Galapagos Islands, where a track will be laid out at the islands' main airport, to be named Tierra Baltra Circuito, or TBC, which will approximately double the number of motor racing circuits in Ecuador, the nation that brought us Sebastián Merchán Maldonado (no relation) among no other drivers.
Spokesperson for the Galapagos Motor Sports Federation, Marie Niguana said "For sure, we are very 'appy that FIEh? Formula e is coming to how you say the Galapagos Islands.
"I am contractually obliged to say something positive about the future of electric motor vehicles and something else about how iconic our circuit will be. But more importantly than that, we want to see some auto racing that will be quiet enough not to disturb the local population of endangered reptiles and rare birds.
"Speaking of," she added, "do you want to see my boobies?"
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