The fact that Bahrain is to be allowed to run a race this year appals me. What also appals me is that India is to be inconvenienced. No doubt the promoters in India are hoping for a down to the wire finale, but what about the marshals, the circuit doctors and paramedics, the stall holders and the fans who have already booked their flights and hotel rooms?

Races cannot take place without marshals and I can imagine people arranging time off work for the honour of spending a long weekend without pay. As always, the powers that be pay scant attention to the vast number of people without whom a race could not happen.

None of the teams want to go to Bahrain, but they are contractually obliged to do so. Before the 1958 Cuban GP for sports cars, some of Fidel Castro's men kidnapped Fangio. They would have taken Stirling as well, but Fangio told them that Moss was on his honeymoon. The rebels treated Fangio well and released him after the race, they were making a political point.

The world has moved on, I cannot think of a guerrilla group today who would not snatch a star prize because he is on his honeymoon. Sports events are soft targets for political activists.

Then there is the issue for having the season extended with 2012 to prepare for. Teams have been handed a logistical nightmare just before the Christmas holidays. Bernie does not celebrate Christmas, but lots of people do.

Sponsors may not like having their names linked to Bahrain and this is a special issue for Red Bull and Toro Rosso which are named for their owner/sponsor. Right now, Bahrain is as attractive to a sponsor as syphilis.

The WMSC has sent delegates on a fact-finding mission. In the 1930s there were many nasty stories leaking about Stalin's Russia so a fact-finding mission was invited, a group which included George Bernard Shaw. They found no evidence of the ten million who died of famine in the Ukraine or of the prison camps in Siberia. They saw only happy, glowing, farm workers and people making tractors.

A fact-finding mission is about as useful as the due diligence the FIA used when deciding which teams to admit in 2010. Due diligence weeded out hopeless cases like Lola and Prodrive, yet accepted US GP and HRT. Excuse me for being sceptical about fact finding, due diligence and other fancy phrases.

All the teams, except for HRT, belong to FOTA and this could be show time. If they said they were not going, there is actually nothing that anyone could do. Bernie could jump up and down, waving a piece of paper as much as he liked, no court would support him. All it would do would be to add to the gaiety of nations.

This could become the issue which decides who really is important in Formula One - it sure isn't some hedge fund.

Bernie has said that Bahrain is not about the money. Of course not, Bernie, perish the thought.

Bahrain failed to meet the original deadline of 1st May and that should have been an end to the matter. I am a journalist, I know what a deadline means. The word is 'dead', not man-flu. Apparently, the WMSC has its own definition, just as taxi drivers have their own version of the Highway Code.

It is a fair bet that 'force majeure' was invoked, it often is on such occasions. A force majeure is something beyond normal control, like your factory burning down, but not if you started the fire yourself. The reason for Bahrain cancelling in March was not something beyond its control. People stage peaceful demonstrate all the time in democracies without being killed and maimed.