Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo criticized Singapore’s inaugural night race after Massa and Raikkonen’s failed to take any top 3 spots. He was quoted as saying:
Unfortunately when we race on tracks where staging a circus or something else would be better, anything can happen, because the spectacle is supplied by the safety car.
I thought I’ve seen sore losers, but this one takes the cake.
According to Wikipedia, this guy has a net worth of 400 million dollars, comes from an aristocratic family, has a law degree and is the vice-president of a football club. But he still whines like a little 8 year-old kid who didn’t get to ride first or second on the playground see saw.
I’m not remotely patriotic, but I didn’t think we deserved a comment like that, especially from someone of his stature. Mr Ferrari President also said that street circuits like Singapore and Valencia were bad for the sport and he wants to “talk about this with all the other teams”, and he even went as far as saying the race was “humiliating for F1″.
What Mr Whine-alot failed to recognize is all the effort and money our little island state spent on making the F1 happen (and not to mention the obscene amounts of money that went to F1 and the teams). According to LTA, a total of $23.8 million was spent on the infrastructure, and all the works were approved by the FIA three months before the race. So what is Mr. Crybaby complaining about?
We know he had previously bitched about the FIA for a tyre fiasco in 2005, instead of blaming Michelin.
Maybe because Michelin had business dealings with Ferrari?
Before this, I thought what’s uniquely Singapore is the ability of our people to complain about everything. I believe we met our match. I think “Staging a circus” are very strong words which in my opinion is totally uncalled for.
If Singapore was trying to stage a circus, then he and his pit clowns should be wearing red noses when they return next year after the screw up when Massa was in the pit.
Mr President, If your team fucked up then don’t blame the track lah.
With this loss, Ferrari is now behind McLaren in the Constructor’s standings. Will Ferrari end up as the whining winning team at the end of the season?
Boo hoo.