While it is true that I’m enthusiastically looking forward to this year’s Italian Grand Prix, I have to say that there is a cloud passing over my head. Let me say upfront that I am not able to exactly put my thoughts in a form that could be understood by many.

This year is definitely not the same as any previous ones. It is not positively different, but rather negatively. There are times in the past few days when I thought that this season should rewind itself and start all over again. Something is making me uncomfortable, and that’s none other than the scandal involving the top two teams ever in Formula One history.

I’m neither bothered about the scandal, its specifics, the people involved, the technicalities nor about the teams themselves. It’s the effect this has had on the sport that I’m bothered about. I would rather say, worried about. This is definitely not good for the sport. It tarnishes the image of the teams and the sport. Things will never be the same again, regardless of whether a penalty is awarded to the defaulting team or not. But there are rules; they’ve to be followed and I am definitely not against it. In fact the Tifosi side of me would want that anyway

What’s behind all this? Is it greed for money which prompted the actors to do this? Or something more that that? The Almighty alone has the answers. I’m also not sure that the investigations or the inquiries will really throw light on the motives.

If a penalty is awarded and McLaren is excluded from the World Championships, I’m not sure I’ll even watch the next year’s championships, because of two reasons: one is that there’ll be no real competition honestly, and the other is the belief that this highly “technical” sport is slowly changing to more of a business competition in a corporate world.

This year will be specially remembered by all Formula One enthusiasts. I sincerely hope that the scandal dies down soon in some way or the other and the coming years will show “healthy” competition on motor racing technology, which is all this sport is about.