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Luca di Montezemolo calls crisis meeting (soap opera-like subtitle “As the Worm Turns”)

Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo admitted after a two-and-a-half-hour crisis meeting at the team’s HQ “they need to sort out their problems urgently.”

“It would be a euphemism to say people here were very angry, but these same people are also very determined to react,” Di Montezemolo said in Maranello.

“I brought with me a monk’s hood to make everyone understand that we have to tackle this season with humility and made the point that I don’t want to find us on some sort of TV comedy video programme after each race.”

Forgive me for saying so Luca, and at great risk of finding a horse’s head in my bed placed by the Ferrari Tifosi, the team is already in the midst of a TV comedy.

The fact the team has scored zero points two GP’s into the season is only the pilot episode to Ferrari’s TV comedy.

Ferrari’s (and three other members of the Gang of Four) insistence on continuing to chase the diffuser issue all the way to the sport’s International Court of Appeal is making the biggest splash and is the debut episode in Ferrari’s TV comedy.

At this point no less than 6 officials, spread over the two GP’s, have looked at and ruled the butt ends of the Brawn, Williams and Toyota cars and declared their diffusers to be compliant with F1 regulations.

Brawn’s owner, Ross Brawn, has also been quoted as saying that the diffusers could have been outlawed last year had other F1 teams heeded his warnings back then that the rules had loopholes which his team, Toyota and Williams have subsequently exploited. In short, according to Brawn, Ferrari and others passed on the opportunity to avoid this mess.

“Nobody was interested,” Brawn told Autosport.com. “They’re interested now.”

Kimi Raikkonen is nothing if not a master at stating the obvious: “The FIA’s Court of Appeal will decide about the diffuser and this decision will have an enormous impact on the championship,” Raikkonen said.

Fer Christ sake, let it go! Make the changes to match the three front-runners and get on with it!

IN RELATED NONSENSE:

There’s been some evidence, or more accurately speculation, other bits & pieces of the Brawn entries weren’t within legal specs during the season opening Australian GP.

Specifically Brawn’s CO2 belching, earth is hotting-up exhaust pipes were too long. Oh the SHAME!

And leave us not forget that Mclaren’s FibberGate issue has yet to be heard in the kangaroo court of All Kangaroo Courts, the WMSC in Paris.

Someone remind me, there has been real racing, as opposed to political BS, going on so far this championship season right?