Author Robert Heinlein once wrote, “A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.” With a recent announcement by Formula One “Supremo” Bernie Ecclestone, I can’t help but wonder if this aphorism doesn’t hold true for Formula One, as well.
The impetus for all this was Ecclestone’s recent pronouncement that the Italian Grand Prix would likely no longer be held at Monza, after 2016. Not due to safety, infrastructure or attendance issues, but ostensibly because he can’t squeeze metric tons of Euros out of it.
