So It IS Against The Rules To Kill Your Team..

"Renault have been given a two-year suspended ban for their role in fixing last year's Singapore Grand Prix."

Ahh Formula 1, the art of getting in a rocket on wheels and keeping it on a winding strip of grey stuff and off the acres of green stuff and big deadly walls. It's racing, and as the '1' suggests, it's the number one car racing championship in the world. The idea of racing however, has long been shelved for politics. No longer is a driver who can actually drive likely to win, it's the driver who will earn the most money for winning that does. It's happened for years, since Ferarri slowed whoever was driving down to let King Schumacher win another race which nobody watched. This year however, the French went one further, slowing just wasn't as fun as ploughing a human into a wall at 150kph.

Alonso, old world champion, wasn't winning, and big boss wanted him to. He needed a way of slowing the race, not a way of making Alonso speed up, so ordered his other driver, Piquet, to crash into a wall at high speed. Crazily, he did, and the crash was one of the worst seen this year, endangering the lives of spectators, other drivers, and obviously the little man in his flimsy fibreglass rocket that exploded around him. Unsurprisingly, everyones been banned and suspended (except the drivers who didn't really have a choice), and a powerful message was put across F1 before people took this theory further.

Where does this leave us in sport now, if Fergies reds hadn't beaten their Manchester City rivals last weekend would he have Tommy Gunned the whole team down? Will the 2012 olympic racers carry grenades incase they fall behind? Well no, the olypmics won't have been build by 2050, but the message is there. If you want real sport, go to a 'Fiver a ticket' banger race at your local race track, it's the one place where politics have kept out of racing. For now.