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How much did politics + Alain Prost damage F1

posted 12 years ago by efa-3
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I get it that they ALL want to win, after all, if they didn't they wouldn't be there. I understand that gloves are off on a racetrack. But politics, "meta-racing", and all that jazz must have hurt the sport, the purity of it, at least on some level.

Every time when talent gets shafted by politics the end result is less then what it could have been, in any arena of human endeavour.

Isn't Alain Prost ashamed, or is it so that he can't see it because of his own narcissism?

[–] thomas998 12 years ago

Consider the number of people that have willingly cheated in things like the tour de France. That rave is filled with cheats that wouldn't have won otherwise and it is a sport where much less money is involved....yet those people still cheat like dogs. When people are hyper competitive they don't care about honor, only winning.

[–] linop90 12 years ago

Cheats like Senna?

Eat the Neocons.

[–] sean-goddard 12 years ago

Explain, or don't spout off garbage you moron.

[–] Three_Cats_Movies 11 years ago

Like one of my post I made 2 years ago, I said Prost being French gave him a flavour to the FIA at the time as the authorities loved favouring those from their nationalities. The FIA were prepared to fix races and rules to his favour.

[–] ReelFanatic 11 years ago

I'm a Senna fan but I don't believe that Prost damaged the sport. He simply used tools at his advantage to gain favor with the administration. Balestre was the problem in the FIA. As he states in the drivers meeting, "The best decision is my decision!" He was a tyrant who did a great deal of damage to the sport.

I don't feel it is fair to say Prost damaged the sport.