I settled down to watch the US Grand Prix after a very pleasant day yesterday and I still can't believe what I saw. How can a "race" in which seven out of ten competing teams withdraw before the start have any meaning or validity whatsoever?
In their efforts to give struggling Ferrari a leg up - and what other reason can there possibly have been for not agreeing to allow the building of a chicane which would have enabled the Michelin-shod teams to compete - the FIA have clearly forgotten about the punters.
If this is what Formula 1 has come to, then it's time to start over. Hopefully the rival GPWC series which has been set up by the manufacturers for 2008 and beyond will fill the void...