Right or Wrong!?

Yesterday Ferrari and Michael Schumacher won the Formula-1 Race held at Indianapolis USA.

Only six cars started the race due to a safety issue regarding the Michelin tyres. 14 cars didnt start which ran on Michelin. There is a banked corner in the race circuit. The banking is about 9 degrees which is something to be concerned about in F-1. Due to this a lot of pressure is put on the left rear tyre of the F-1 car. Michelin apparently were caught napping and didnt have a tyre setup which was able to take that pressure. Where as Bridgestone surprisingly had a good setup which could take it and finish the race fine.

Now Michelin adviced the teams which ran on their tyres not to run the race due to safety reasons. Teams obediently listened to the advice and got the cars in to the pits after the warm up lap. Now only Ferrari, Jordan and Minardi were left on track. The race began as normal and Ferrari finished 1-2 with Michael Schumacher and Barrichello in that order.

Now the so called supporters of Formula-1 Racing(Actually Mclaren and Renault supporters and Ferrari haters) started cribbing that in sportive spirit Ferrari also shouldnt have raced. I see no reason for it. It was very obvious that Michelin had a prob and tyres are an integral part of any race setup. If Michelin had a problem why should teams with proper setup give up. They have put efforts and put them in the right direction to get it rite... Why should their be rules to accomodate somones mistake!?

I think the blame game should stop here. Teams decided to back off from racing as it was obvious that their tyres had a problem. Now after taking that decision they shouldnt crib about others not taking the decision because they didnt have a prob!!!. Lets be logical about things.. its true we are passionate abt the teams we support, but dont let that blind our eyes from logic and whats right.

Frankly even i didnt watch the race as there was no real "Racing" happening. But what was happening was not wrong at all.. Face it, who makes a mistake has to pay for it!!!