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...cardinal-red jumpsuit walked a few steps from a million-dollar motor home and ducked into a lavish hospitality tent, both in the same bright scarlet. No one was allowed anywhere near him, but throngs of Spaniards hanging over the railing of Valencia's Ricardo Tormo racetrack went crazy. "Look up here, Fernando! Te quiero, Fernando...
...Mosley's determination to save the sport from itself that led to last summer's crisis. Frustrated by negotiations that went nowhere, Mosley tried to impose a budget cap of $64 million per team. The teams couldn't figure out which they liked less, the cap or Mosley. "Max has an expression: 'Don't wound if you don't intend to kill,'" says Martin Brundle, a former driver who now commentates on F1 for television and manages drivers. "We've all been on the receiving end of that attitude, and it tended to smother all Max's good work...
...high-tech bubble and thrives on a velvet-rope mentality that keeps all but a few very high rollers far away from the cars and the drivers. "F1 has gotten extremely constipated and overly grand for itself," says Jackie Stewart. "When I was a wee boy, I went to the track and got [Juan Manuel] Fangio's autograph, I got Stirling Moss's autograph. It's still a fantastic sport, but it needs more of a feel-good factor...
...People should be able to see it and reflect on what went so wrong for someone who had everything...
...March 4, a law went into effect that allowed gay couples in Mexico City to wed, despite outcries from the Roman Catholic Church and President Felipe Calderón's conservative National Action Party. With five other Latin American nations already recognizing same-sex civil unions, the region has become a major front in the gay-marriage battle. The law, passed last year by a solid majority, also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Calderón called the move unconstitutional and vowed to challenge it in court...