I really honestly couldn't believe this when I saw it (many thanks to Jim Minatel for bringing this to my attention!) - what the hell was Ecclestone thinking?!
Fox Sports is reporting that F1 chief doofus had this to say about the IRL's Danica Patrick:
"You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances."
[Via Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog]
The sooner they launch a new championship - some sort of spin off, free from the rules and decisions made by incompetant and self-important fools - the better. And I seriously hope we one day end up with the likes of Danica Patrick in the middle of it - I'd not heard of her achievements before (we don't really get Indy 500 over here), but its great to hear of fellow fridge-freezers making their mark in the utility room world of men.