The world certainly seems to be falling apart for Formula 1’s chief turd burglar these days. First, he gets caught in the act of getting his rocks off to a reenactment of a Nazi death camp. Secondly, he proclaims it is nobody’s business and initiates legal proceedings against the news rag that broke the story. Fat chance of winning that one, as the British court rightly shuts down his frivolous lawsuit and refuses to punish the News of The World.

On June 3rd, the FIA is holding an Extraordinary General Assembly meeting of the FIA Senate which appears to have been scheduled by Max himself. Maybe he doesn’t have the balls to step down himself, so he’s planning on having the board of directors do it for him. That way, he doesn’t have to concede that he might have actually done something wrong.
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ASO, the organizers of the event, have signed a deal with a promotion company in Argentina! And although the South American rally likely won’t happen this year, when it does it will likely revert to Dakar’s traditional January 1 starting date and take the place of the Pampas Rally in the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup. The Pampas Rally will go to Chile and back again.

There has been other routes discussed such as Paris to Beijing Dubai and even Australia but the reports show those possibilities as being too expensive. Morocco was also discussed but intelligence ruled out because of terrorist problems in that area.

ASO had discussed running the event in 2008 just in Morocco, but intelligence ruled that out with terrorists close to the Mauritanian border.