Sportscar Racing and Global Warming

[old man]

It really does not matter what we as individuals believe and some of the comments in this thread since it started on Friday are really interesting and revealing.

The fact we must face is that it is perceived to be happening and we are a minority sport that could be sacrificed by any political government looking for ways to lose the least votes. The comments of the Daimler Chrysler economist fly in the face of the marketing people and illustrate the differing opinions.

We have tools and skills that show the way that CO2 emissions can be measured and cut, we could work out ways to measure the value of various fuels and factor them into regulations, we could set limits for engine size that show we are trying to cut down. The experience from the 1970s fuel crisis shows that we can be hit and I am sorry Bob, I think to do nothing would be quite wrong.

We may not agree with the greens, we may feel we know better and that the extremists are in charge, we can see lots of evidence that the planet changes all the time anyway but with the population at it's present levels and pressure mounting we need to do what we can as a sport to preserve our interests before we are told what to do by politicians looking for high office.

"Better to set an example than to be made into one"