Formula 1 questioned by Time and other media personnel over holding Bahrain GP – Formula 1 news
The Times has tagged Formula 1 as an evil sport as it held firm to tour the county amid civil tensions.
Human rights issues clouded the lead up to the Bahrain Grand Prix as rioting and protesting did not deter Bernie Ecclestone or the Bahrain GP organisers to call off the race.
The race was cancelled in 2011 due to similar issues. Last year media and governments of both countries warned FIA to not tour amid such an uproar. This year however the media and politics were not as united in a bid to stop the race. That gave Ecclestone
who was ready to stage the race in 2011 as well to go on with the race without any hesitations.
Times wrote a stern article over F1’s decision to go on with the race and alleged the sport of promoting tear gas, attack gods and brutality.
“The world's leading motor sport should flinch to look in the mirror. Those who gave the merest regard to anything other than profit -- among whom Mr Ecclestone and his associates do not appear to number -- could easily have attached conditions to the race's
return,” the piece said.
Kevin Eason a journalist covering reports from Bahrain wrote in the newspaper that he was confronted with Bernie Ecclestone. He said he called for him yesterday and told him that everything he wrote from Bahrain was rubbish and that the piece was biased.
In the Daily Telegraph, Tom Cary wrote, “Despite the spectre of civil unrest, the many threats of disruption and sabotage, stringent measures put in place by Bahrain's security services proved crushingly effective. While it remains unclear what casualties,
if any, were sustained in clashes between protesters and riot police elsewhere in Bahrain last night, just two arrests on race day -- both women -- represented a major victory for the Bahrain International Circuit.”
Sebastian Vettel’s win has been overshadowed somewhat by what has gone at the background of the race and it is a sad day for the sport. The race is over but it remains to be asked whether it was ethical to have the race in Bahrain or not.
The fans will hope that tensions in Bahrain are solved as soon as possible and next year’s Grand Prix does not face such issues at all and promotes peace and happiness rather than the negativity it spread this year.
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