[Rules] The FIA - what's occurring there?

[flatlandsman]

I have no issue with people using colourful language, all the FIA are worried about are sponsors and shareholders and tv companies, the people that pay for everything basically, I am sure most fans could not give the slightest toss about a diver swearing.

I do have a problem with tv people apologising to me about it, it is not their fault they are not responsible for what people say, OK they are the broadcaster but why apologise to me for another person swearing it is beyond ridiculous and always has been in my eyes. You cannot CONTROL their life any more than you can control mine so why apologise.

Oddly the tv people seem less than concerned about broadcasting team radio with swearing bleeped out, which is basically a kop out anyway to make sure nobody complains to them when it is blatantly obvious what has been said, they seem less then concerned about showing that ON SCREEN in text format.

Yet when a drivers messes up and does it live he has to be treated like he has committed a heinous crime. Double standards for me too there.

[Tourer]

MBS says that the FIA doesn't get enough credit and is rubbished too much - has (yet another) moan about money while he's at it.

Predictable and similar to what we've heard from him before - seems like he wants to portray himself and the FIA as some kind of "victim". So, in regard to his points on things that the FIA has improved or on the FIA position in general, there are always counter points:

The remote operations centre was only set up under duress when the FIA accepted that it had over-loaded a small F1 race management team (& one person in particular) and should have done much more, many years earlier. To be fair, MBS walked into that as the new guy & was stuck with sorting out a solution.

The training and development of senior officials & the new officials department are not new - that has been happening for years, with (for example) the Australian ASN training officials in several countries where motor sport is new(ish). What is new is that the FIA has seen the income to be made from it and now taken it all for itself.

The track limits solution is fair enough but should have happened years earlier and easily could have if we're honest.

His suggestion that the FIA was operating in the red financially has been strongly refuted by Jean Todt previously.

He IS right though, that sports governing bodies tend not to get so much credit, but do get the brickbats when things go wrong, but that's the way of the world, is life and how it is in the grown up world - time he simply got on with it sensibly IMHO.

[chillibowl]

Hopefully his swear job initiative gets them back into the black!