Nurburgring Qualifying

Absolute farce again in my opinion, Formula 1 is far too rigid in it's set up. The same kind of thing happened last week in the DTM, except that their red flag was a real one! They now use the same system as F1, the first session of Qualifying was halted due to a crash, it took a while to move the car so instead of just restarting the session for ten minutes to see who would get knocked out, they added the the remaining minutes to the second session and allowed ALL of the cars to take part. Considering the confusion that was caused, the hot laps that were halted and the fact there were only three and a half minutes left, I think that the same thing should have happened, it's fair to everyone then.

FOM have since apologised for the 'phantom red flag' blaming it on the circuit's Starting Lights Panel.

Fisichella showed that F1 Driver's do still have emotions by storming up to Villeneuve's BMW and giving him grief for not getting out of his way on his fast lap, Renault say this cost Fisi seven tenths. The Stewards agreed with Fisi and Villeneuve's fastest three laps were removed leaving him to start Ninth, one place behind where he was going to start anyway! Obviously, Fisi is under pressure and I can't understand why he is always so far off the pace of Alonso when he is a talented driver.

Yuji Ide has swapped positions with Super Aguri test driver Franck Montagny after advice from the FIA, citing inexperience as their main reason. But it's the FIA that allowed him to race with so little experience anyway, so for them to suggest that he should go on testing duties for a while shows them up too! I always thought there used to be rules about doing a certain amount of milage in an F1 car before you were allowed to race, if this isn't (or still is) the case, surely the FIA have ballsed it up again?

I'm beginning to worry about the future of F1 now as the FIA don't seem to get it anymore.