Clearly, the Indian Commonwealth games organizing committee has obviously demonstrated that the above phrase is not in their “to do” list before they got started on planning the games.

With such unrivalled magnitude of preparedness as a nation for staging major events, could we really bear the sight of the staging of an Indian Formula 1 Grand Prix or a First grade Grand Farce?

To be fair, India is not alone in major event disasters and being unprepared. Recently, a Red Bull F1 car was driven by Karun Chandok around the Korean F1GP track to demonstrate the track to the world. However, the track’s final surface has not been applied and paved; so the car was driven around at significantly reduced speed, the facilities are well behind schedule and the F1 event in only a matter of weeks’ time.

As recent as the Singapore GP weekend, statements from no other than Bernie himself and other team principals not having confidence that the Korean GP will run smoothly hit the media. They have serious doubts the track and all facilities will be tested and working perfectly. It remains to be seen whether the Koreans will deliver or not, despite their national pride.

This is very much a mirror image to the situation before the 1988 summer Olympic games, where Korean national pride ruled over all else, even if not everyone and everything is quite ready in time for the games.

Even before a wheel was turned there was  already strong opposition to the Grand Prix by environmentalists and the “Save Albert Park” movement; local residents and the usual NIMBY’s  affected by the construction of the track and the annual build up and tear down of fencing and facilities before and after each event.

To add more fuel to the fire of opposition to the Grand Prix, the Victorian State government and the Australian Grand Prix Corporation is attracting the ire of ordinary residents and taxpayers of Victoria by posting a bigger loss to the Formula 1 Grand Prix each year since 1996.

It has been announced recently that the 2010 event has lost $49.2 million dollars, which means, by my calculations, that over the past five years, the Australian Grand Prix has lost a total of more than $185 million dollars.

That same $185 million dollars could be very well used in building desperately needed road, public transport or health infrastructure or to fund proper education of Victorian youths. Instead, taxpayers of the state of Victoria, have to line the pockets of one of the richest men in the world for the right to a frivolous activity and to pay the imbeciles who supposedly run it.

• - Common carbon monocoque with roll cage
• - A standard wheelbase of 2850 mm
• - Common front and rear overhang
• - Common front spoiler and rear diffuser
• - V8 engine of yet to be announced size
• - Limited number of engines during season
• - Introduction of "design line" where on one side all cars are common