Quotes from Sunday's F1 Farce.

We attended the United States Grand Prix at historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway last year. It was absolutely fabulous, overwhelming, magical. I spent many months looking forward to returning this year. When a reversal of fortunes meant that we could not, we avoided the fiasco that was yesterday's Father's Day event. I can't imagine how I would have felt if we had been there.

Everybody is sad. Everybody is angry. Nobody could figure out how to make a race happen, even an unsanctioned one. I'm a stickler for rules, but the governing bodies had a responsibility to the paying customers to put on a race, not "a Bridgestone tire test" as one of the commentators described it.

I gathered from this morning's reading that it was the banking on Turn 13 that caused all the tire problems. Nowhere else in Formula 1 do they race on this kind of banked turn. I imagine that the lateral loading on the tirewalls there was tremendous at the high speed of that turn, and that caused the failure. They've been here before, however, and you'd think they'd be aware of this problem.

Anyway, as it says about ten times on the BBC Motorsport page this morning, a "farce."