Chicane should have been accommodated says Jackie Stewart

There was not one happy person after the USGP came to a close on Sunday afternoon

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Apart from maybe the Jordan drivers who secured their own piece of F1 history as a result of the Michelin boycott at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and as Sir Jackie Stewart explained in the Telegraph just hours after the 'race' had finished, there are no winners in this mess, just losers, and lots of them.

"Any sympathy towards Formula One in this country will have gone after this. There will be a lot of ramifications. I can see what has happened here today having a domino affect on F1 in America and perhaps in other countries, too," he said. "The contract in the United States is up next year. Whether the people here will want to renew it now is another thing. There are not many promoters in this country who will want to take on the responsibility of hosting an F1 GP, given the difficult financial situation surrounding the sport at this time."

The seven Michelin teams as well as two of the Bridgestone runners, were asking for a temporary chicane to be put in place at the trouble spot so that they could all safely compete and as the disappointed three time world champion went on to explain, any form of crisis management requires a compromise and as such it is his belief that the USGP should have taken place in the proper way after they made allowances for the chicane as requested.