FIA still evaluating F1 night races

At least we won't see how bad the pathetic BMW Williams will finish in F1 night races right?

As of press time, FIA President Max Mosley has announced that they will sanction night races in Formula One only if they are assured that such events will be 100 percent safe to the drivers and their respective teams.

For all ya'll living under a rock lately, talks about F1 night races began at the start of the 2007 Formula One season. And yeah, defending two-time F1 World Champion was quick to disagree with it.

''I did a demonstration in Valencia when we launched the car in January and it was at night,'' the new McLaren ace driver Fernando Alonso said. ''And it was extremely difficult to see anything, to see the road.''

''For me, it's very hard to believe that they will have strong enough lights to see perfectly okay to have a race. But sometimes, you know, Formula One surprises you.''

True that, and Formula One doesn't give a damn what Fernando Alonso thinks anyway... So I guess the FIA will just give this entire thing a go just to piss him off a little bit. And by the looks of things, FIA President Max Mosley is keeping an open mind about the whole thing.

''We wouldn't sanction night racing for Formula One without a very careful investigation,'' Mosley said. ''There are all sorts of factors there, some of which have been highlighted and some of which haven't yet, and we want to look at that very carefully before we sanction it.''

''So far there hasn't been an application but if there is a serious attempt to run a night race then we will have a very careful look at it.''

''We have a safety commission which looks specifically at these problems and they will probably come up with a number of recommendations and research to undertake before saying okay, because it would be a big step and we wouldn't want to make a mistake.''

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Kimi Raikkonen 7/4

Fernando Alonso 7/4

Lewis Hamilton 9/2

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