Positively shameful

[Gedanken]

From F1-live.com:

(Alan) Jones ... criticised the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) for overlooking the 50th anniversary of the first Formula One championship won by an Australian driver.

Sir Jack Brabham, now 82, won his first of three titles in 1959. He and Jones are the only Australian world champions.

"He is an icon and a national treasure, and to overlook him in that fashion is pathetic," Jones said.

Brabham has turned down his invitation to attend this weekend's event, claiming it was only made after a PR company working with his son David approached the AGPC.

"The fact is, they wouldn't have issued an invitation if they hadn't been prodded and they certainly wouldn't have done anything for the 50th anniversary," Brabham's wife Margaret said.

To Jones' criticisms, AGPC chairman Ron Walker replied: "I am not going to respond to Alan Jones' gripes about the Grand Prix."

This is supposed to be a sport, and it's a crying shame that some cheap casino hustler like Walker has prostituted it for a seat costing a lousy couple of hundred bucks. Petrolhead that I am, I'm wishing more and more that my home town will dump the GP and flush it down like the turd that it has been turned into.