War and Peace!

The 'peace' part is that Bernie Ecclestone has finally signed the 'bit of paper' that Nick Fry mentioned at the Spanish GP. This agreement will form the basis of the new 'Concorde Agreement' once the FIA has sorted out the regulations.

The 'war' part is an email I have sent off to F1 Racing Magazine in response to one of their contributors and his comments regarding football in the preview of the British Grand Prix. My email is as follows:

I'm writing in response to your correspondent, Maurice Hamilton's snobbish attitude to Football. He mentions that the media devotes 'valuable space' to 'League One matches attended by 10,000 people' and then goes on to say that ten times that attends the Grand Prix, a fair point, however, he doesn't point out that the same media devotes valuable space to the Grand Prix also. In fact most papers have four or five pages per day of the British Grand Prix.

Also he doesn't mention that there are 12 matches per weekend in League one, so 10,000 multiplied by 12 is a greater figure than he gives for the Grand Prix. Actually, I'd bet there are more football fans Worldwide than Formula 1 fans.

I am a fan of both Formula 1 and Football - my teams are Williams and Oxford Utd - and feel that his dig at the media, and Football in general, was out of place in your otherwise excellent preview of the race.

Not something that I wanted to do, but felt it necessary after he decided to deride the decision to move the British Grand Prix due to the World Cup Finals.