F1 Strippers?

By Karl King
May 6 2005

Now that I've got you all excited, I'm afraid I am going to have to bring you back down to earth. When I mentioned F1 Strippers, I wasn't talking about busty blondes with tight red leather trousers, no, I was talking about the FIA.

Don't worry though, Max Mosely isn't going to whip his clothes off before the next GP and start dancing round the grid either.

What is it then? Well it's actually another one of the FIA's boring proposals, but maybe this one, for once, has a point.

As if BAR's recent race bans aren't enough to scare the teams of from cheating, but the FIA may start stripping point-scoring F1 machines to pieces.

"The message this sends," Mosely said "is that we insist everybody races to the same rules."

He said that one car in the top eight places could be taken to bits to make sure it's legal after each race. "Maybe we should do that," Max pondered.

It took six hours at Imola with the BAR, so if this plan goes ahead, the classification we get on our TV screens at the end of GP's may not be enough.