Yesterday the boss of the British-American Racing Formula 1 team threatened to move his team abroad in the wake of a European Directive against tobacco advertising. Now we find the FIA supremo Max Mosely floating the possibility that Formula 1 might quit Britain altogether.
Am I the only person who's getting more and more frustrated with the F1 circus's tobacco addiction? For decades most of the cars have looked like rolling 'baccy billboards, and now we're seeing traditional European venues losing their races to be replaced with Grands Prix in other countries such as China and India. I'm sure that it's coincidence that such places have much more lax tobacco regulations...