[Update: I commend BMW, Daimler Benz, Honda and Toyota for their swift and forthright stance on this disgrace.]
I've always liked Formula One autoracing not because it's expensive and exclusive (I can barely afford tickets to watch it) but because it represents the cutting edge of technology in autoracing in an extremely competitive environment. It is also a rich man's sport these days, but given what it attempts to be for autoracing there's no real way around that. The technology is, indeed, avant-garde -- but it has found its way into even the most inexpensive automobiles on the road. And that's why this story is so profoundly disappointing:
Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss’s Orgy Draws Calls to Quit
[Author's Note: He Set Up Himself The Bomb]
LONDON — Few scandals in recent years have provoked as much anger and dismay across Europe as the saga of Max Mosley, the overseer of grand prix motor racing who made tabloid news last weekend in a front-page exposé and accompanying Web video showing him in a sadomasochistic orgy with five supposed prostitutes in a London sex “dungeon.”
I won't presume to determine whether or not speaking in German during an S&M orgy with prostitutes in a London dungeon constitutes Nazi sympathy, or just everyday, run-of-the-mill insanity. Everyone in the world will reach their own conclusions at this point. But for the sport and for the F.I.A., it's an unmitigated disaster, on the same level (but in a much more shameful and perverted sense) as Ayrton Senna's death.
What the heck is wrong with these people? Isn't running the biggest, most lavish, most expensive show in motorsports enough in and of itself? *Five* prostitutes?
Sheesh...
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