A shame, pathetic.

Sometimes I feel I am a clown.

Sunday, July 25th 2010, 9:00am(BRT). I woke up early to watch Hockenheim GP 2010. The Brazilian driver was at the first place. Then a "instruction" came from his engineer saying that Fernando Alonso were driving faster. Some seconds later, Alonso overtook Felipe Massa. What a shame Ferrari! The drivers will ever deny, but it was clear that it was a team instruction. Sport has been becoming an environment where business surpass ethic and personal values, where people are bending economic interests. Competition does not exist, it is part of the past.

Felipe Massa stuck by his team which pays his salary. Alonso, too. The villain was Ferrari that allowed this uncomfortable situation. I fear about the sport future. I hope that F1 is an exception. The economic interests won. The competition? Who cares when team, sponsors, managers are all the winner.

Imagine a situation where a powerful company sponsors two important soccer, basketball, volleyball, or whatever popular sport teams. Suppose that there is a third team that is not sponsored by this company. They are competing and the company order to its teams to arrange results in order to preserve the company interests. I hope never see this situation, but I don't think it is impossible.

I'm not a clown. Clowns are people who think and act as if we were.