Mosley unmoved by Indy criticism
The US Grand Prix saga continues...





A big week ahead for Mosley and the FIA
The aftermath of the US Grand Prix fiasco rumbles on and will do for some time yet. The finger pointing continues with some, including Minardi boss Paul Stoddart, blaming FIA President Max Mosley for the Indianapolis mess.

"Stoddart is a sad case," Mosley said in an interview with the Guardian newspaper. "I helped him tremendously when the other teams were trying to steal his money. But now my reaction is that he's obviously forgotten to take his medication."

Mosley's Sunday afternoon just over a week ago was not the relaxed affair he had been hoping for. Instead he spent the day fielding calls from the key players at Indianapolis.

"The teams had gone into headless chicken mode," Mosley told the paper. "One of their suggestions - made more after the event - was that everyone should run with the chicane and only the Bridgestone teams would score points. Bernie would've probably been happy to compromise because his job is to maximise profits. My job is to run the sport absolutely fairly for everybody and not put anybody at risk. Bernie understood that it was not possible for me to give in."


"I had lots of calls from Bernie, Ron Dennis and Flavio Briatore," Mosley continued. "The interaction with Flavio was difficult because he did not make any coherent point. Ron was more rational. With regard to switching to Bridgestone he made the valid point that without testing there could be no safety - which was my precise point about the chicane."

Moving on a week and the seven team's and Michelin are busy preparing for a hearing in Paris. Mosley admits that he would not exclude a 'ban or two' as a result of the hearing by also added that until everyone has made their case, it cannot be clear what punishment, if any, will be imposed.
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