Michelin has offered to pay for ticket refunds for the US Grand Prix and buy 20,000 tickets for next year's race, assuming there is one. In the press release, the company continued the public pissing match between itself and FIA by chastising FIA for accusing them of "boycotting" the USGP and for not changing the track to accommodate their faulty equipment. Of course, they didn't put it quite that way.
Meanwhile, FIA is upset because a letter from Michelin to FIA dated June 27 was leaked to the press (although I haven't been able to find it online anywhere). The FIA website has posted a couple of angry faxes to Michelin about this.
Also, the hearing for the seven teams that pulled out of the USGP is today. There are rumblings that the teams could boycott the French GP if they don't feel like they are treated fairly today. Statistically speaking, I'd say there's about a 115% chance they will feel like they are not being treated fairly.
Stay tuned.
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Michelin ought to be banned from using their tyres in competition for the next several years. They ought to suffer the equivilent of the "death penalty" you Yanks gave that one football team a while back.
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