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Michelin to refund US fans

  • 28-06-2005 10:33pm
    #1
    bennyx_o
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    Just heard on Sky News that Michelin will refund the 120,000 fans from the US grand prix and give 20,000 free tickets, althiugh they're not legally bound to do so. I'll look for a link for it.

    EDIT: link


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  • #2
    Kersh
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    They kinda had to do something, if they ever want to sell a tyre again. Fair play to em though.


  • #3
    bennyx_o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭bennyx_o


    I agree. The FIA said to them that they should refund the fans.

    PARIS -- The president of Formula One's governing body thinks Michelin should compensate fans who bought tickets for the United States Grand Prix fiasco.

    "My personal view is that Michelin should offer to compensate the fans on a fair basis," Max Mosley said Wednesday in a FIA statement. "Anyone who had a ticket this year would be entitled to the same ticket free of charge next year."

    FIA has already accused the seven teams using Michelin tires of damaging the sport's image by pulling out of the June 19 grand prix at Indianapolis.

    FIA summoned the seven to a June 29 hearing in Paris, charging them with a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code.

    French company Michelin provides seven of the 10 F1 teams with tires. Only six cars _ using Bridgestone tires _ started the race after 14 drivers left the track following the warmup lap.

    Michelin unsuccessfully asked FIA to ease its rule prohibiting teams from changing tires after qualifying. FIA also refused to consider installing a curve that Michelin said would slow speeds and make the track safer for its tires. Michelin then advised its teams not to compete.

    Mosley defended the decision not to allow the chicane.

    "It would have been unfair, against the rules and potentially dangerous," Mosley said. "To radically change a circuit like Indianapolis ... would be a disadvantage to the teams which had brought correct equipment to the race.

    "Why should the Bridgestone teams suddenly find they had gone all the way to America to run in a non-Championship race," Mosley added. "It would be like saying there could be no medals in the Olympic rowing because some countries had brought the wrong boats."

    Mosley did not reveal further details of the June 29 hearing.

    "We will listen carefully to what all the teams have to say. There are two sides to every story," he said.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062201511_pf.html


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