Max is starting to feel the heat of the stakeholders in F1. You would expect Jackie Stewart to jump on this, and Niki Lauda never missed a chance to talk to the press, but I thought John Watson’s comments comparing him to Robert Mugabe were spot on and caught the real point: Max can fight as much as wants and he may even win and retain the presidency, but is he doing the best thing for the FIA and the sport? With four of F1’s manufacturers calling for him to step down, event organizers asking him not to attend races, Max should just do the right thing. But he can’t because everything he has been taught is that what is good for the dictator is good for the state. So, it is OK to fight because if Max sees prostitution as a good thing for the presidency of the FIA, then it is good for all constituents including the Middle East, India, Germany. It doesn’t matter if prostitution is illegal there or that their constituents are offended by the practice.
The FIA has been a positive thing for Max. Some of the things that he has done has been good for the FIA. But now it is over and he will need to be forced to see that, because he won’t do the right or classy thing on his own.
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