No Italian GP?

[midtown]

Talk about your "activist" judges.

Speed Article

The verdict from Magistrate Marco Manunta - a name the tifosi aren’t likely to forget should one of F1’s most traditional races, right at the Scuderia Ferrari’s backyard, end up indeed being canceled - defined racing as a “superfluous, dangerous and socially useless activity with a big impact on the environment.”

[dog-ring]

I'm thinkin that the Tifosi Mafiosi might have their way with this judge..................

[Clefo]

“superfluous, dangerous and socially useless activity with a big impact on the environment.”

Much like the legal system

[cheeseczar]

I'm thinkin that the Tifosi Mafiosi might have their way with this judge..................

I was trying to figure out something to say, but this summed it up pretty well!

[Cygni]

It has a big impact on the environment? Unless he means environment in the community/noise sense, hes pretty clueless already. As if we didnt already know that hes clueless from that quote.

Pretty damn stupid.

[skypigeon]

Already, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California has asked for Manunta's resume, just in case...

[Ganassifan]

Is this like the people who build homes at the end of an existing airport runway, then complain that it's too noisy?

You really have to understand the Italian legal system...this is the place where police can raid the hotel rooms of bicycle racers without warrants or probable cause...