Talking of movies, there was a film in late 60s entitled 'If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium', a rom-com featuring one of those infamous groups of tourists (Americans) on a whirlwind 18-day sightseeing tour of Europe.

Looking at events over the last couple of days, there could be room for an F1-based movie entitled, 'If it is Wednesday, F1 must be fantastic'.

For, speaking at the weekend, Bernie Ecclestone said that F1 is "the worst it has ever been", and that he wouldn't pay (cough) to take his family to watch a race.

Lo and behold, a couple of days later, following meetings of the Strategy Group and the F1 Commission which produced a number of changes that have left fans and drivers somewhat bewildered, everything is great again.

"I think now I'd be a bit more confident that we are going to see some good racing," he told Reuters in a telephone interview… possibly because he would be unable to maintain a straight face if questioned in person.

"I think there's lots of things we can do and will be doing," he added. "What people needed was a bit of a shake-up. I seem to be the only person that has thought we should do something in Formula One, to wake everybody up a little bit. And maybe that's what's happened.

"I wasn't talking down the sport at all," he insisted, "quite the opposite. I was trying to sort of explain that unless we did something that's the way we'd be going."

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1. Posted by gturner38, 26/02/2016 0:21

"He's been talking down the sport for the past couple years and was talking down the current engine rules for years before they were even in effect. Rather than being a promoter, he's been a very big part of the public losing a sense of excitement for the sport. On top of that, the fiddling with the rules reeks of desperation which isn't entirely necessary. I look at the change in qualifying and feel that it may prove to be an interesting format, but rushing a rule change to something that was perfectly fine just announces to the world that the powers that be in F1 are panicking and Bernie is doing nothing to stop the panic."

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2. Posted by White Lightning, 26/02/2016 0:00

"Watch out for him next time there's a wet grand prix, his wellies have got Spiderman on."

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3. Posted by White Lightning, 25/02/2016 12:08

"The man is losing it. The post-Bernie civil war is going to be a spectacular watch."

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