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F1 News > French Grand Prix problems - Grandprix.com (253 words) |
 | The FIA argued that the French had no right to any money but a deal was struck during the last period of Republican government with the FIA pledging to stay in France if it was left alone by the authorities. |
| As a result the French have increased their pressure on the FIA, arguing that the organization should pay tax on money it made between 1990 and 1992. |
| In the past the threat that France will lose its Grand Prix is usually sufficient to get the government to negotiate but at the moment it seems Lionel Jospin's ministers are not being helpful. |
| Grand Prix Journal VI (5963 words) |
| Grand Prix racing often only took place on the television screen, except for the German round of the championship, when some guys had crashed fatally. |
| Surely, the image of Grand Prix driving as a profession was a negative one in a Germany of the 68 generation, who often were able to remember the war or the post-war era. |
| The Grand Prix driver not as a fair sportsman, but as the Aryan superman, instead of fighting for wins with his competitor, having the order to consider him as a brutal enemy to bring complete, if possible, fatal defeat to - that was the horrible example the Nazis had created. |
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