That was the word I was looking for. Thanks Steven, I can now sleep tonight.

There are two free practise sessions to watch tonight. No time for sleep.

This will not go down well with F1 fans and is just another stage of the downward spiral of the sport.

I think it is such a shame that the sport’s fans feel compelled to write things like that. A truly great shame. But sometimes, it is necessary because it is true.

I owe you one for the mention!

I owe you one for the emails – thank you! By the way, I’ll probably respond this weekend when I get five minutes. Things have been a bit hectic in Ollie-land these past few weeks, but I think it’s all coming together again.

unprofessional

That was the word I was looking for. Thanks Steven, I can now sleep tonight.

For the organisers not even to get an hint of a warning shows the moral fibre that the sport now has as its leaders

I agree. It seems they just don’t care and consider themselves above any one and any thing.

Apart from all the things that have been said before the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is the ideal showcase for KERS. If you were going to design a track to suit KERS it would be Montreal. While I couldn’t care less about KERS I would hate to see Montreal go. There are many tracks I would quickly forget about if the fell off the calendar an unfortunately these are the tracks Bernie favours.

I read today that the teams are pushing to keep the event in 2009, and hopefully this will play out. I have been considering making the trip up there for this coming season, but have been waiting to see what happens with the USGP situation in 2010 before booking any plans, so now I am just one of many fans left hanging out to dry.

I diden’t mean to completely rip Bernie in my statement above, because he dose do some things in a very good manner. When FOM had the North American doubleheader going it was a very good deal for many reasons. First, it came towards the midpoint of the season and the championship was going long enough to have some cearly-defined leaders, but was not quite far enough along to have many teams and drivers out of the running. Second, fans in both nations got to see a GP on TV at their local time either before or after their home event. And the concept worked to a good extent- both races were always full with 100,000-plus, even after the Indy debacle in ‘05.

Now, niether race is set for 2009, and there are a huge number of us here across the Atlantic who don’t have a race within easy travel distance to attend. But the most suprising thing to me was that this comes just a few weeks after the meeting at Spa between Bernie and the team principles- not only did I take that to be a fantastic sign that Bernie was looking back to America, but in his interview on the grid with Peter Windsor of SPEED, Bernie was in a relatively good mood about America- a welcomed change from some of the less memorable comments he had made about the U.S. in the past. But now the treatment of the Canadian GP seems to reverse that logic, and not only dose it place the future of the Montreal event in serious jeopardy, but it also makes a return/debut for any U.S. venue all the less likley, since they now have no partner to pair up with on travel expenses.

Sorry for the long rant here, but in closing I hope that FOM will pull their head out of the sand and get back to doing a good business here in North America- many of us are misisng out, and there is no doubt that the powerbrokers of F1 can do a bang-up job if they just lift a few fingers and put some support behind a few races here