This man has contributed nothing to F1 but acts like he owns it. All he is in reality is a dogsbody for a seriously discredited president who if he had any class whatever would have resigned his office by now.

You have to wonder why someone like Donnelly who is likely to lose his master’s protection before long would seek to make an enemy of the most popular F1 opinion former in the country. You would need to be some kind of moron to follow that strategy. Either that or you would need to have a messianic belief that you were right like Max and Bernie.

Now if Martin had been alleging something blatantly erroneous, then there would be cause. But all Martin has done, as far as I can see, is challenge a few obviously bad decisions. Martin has been doing that for years (at least since the 1999 bargeboard matter) and if he is more vociferous now, it is because the FIA have forgotten their own regulations and are making things up as they go along, not because he has himself become more prone to unwarranted criticism.

It would be wise of the BBC to take Martin on and stand its ground. Not only because Bernie controls the contract under which it operates, but because the BBC is supposed to be a bastion of (relatively) unbiased journalism. Such would be incompatible with hiring the sort of FIA-biased individual the FIA would like simply because the FIA is acting like a schoolground bully.

But then, as Clive mentioned, S&Max tried to dictacte to the Australian Supreme Court in Melbourne 2005, so he clearly thinks he is above anybody.

What a delusion to entertain, when he is lower than a flea on a gnat.