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CHRONICLE: Is a driver worth a championship?
Olivier Pla is just one of several examples of drivers affected by the date change of the Fuji 6 Hours, which happened to 'accommodate' Fernando Alonso in the Endurance World Championship. The only date concomitant with the Formula 1 World Championship was the 6 Hours of Fuji, and 'were' because the FIA ​​changed the date, only and exclusively to be able to count on the presence of Fernando Alonso in the event, marimbando altogether for everything else. And all the rest is 'only' the IMSA Petit Le Mans race, which prevents the riders who had already planned - and even signed contract based on the calendars originally released - to compete in both competitions.This is the case of Olivier Pla: "Thank you very much @FIAWEC, I do not believe you have done this ... your lack of consideration and respect for the drivers who have a contract with a team at IMSA to run the North American Endurance Cup at the same time week is unbelievable. I'm sure I will not be the only one very unimpressed with what they did, "wrote Olivier Pla in his Twitter account.It is permissible for the FIA ​​to do so in order to promote a competition that requires them to speak more about it as from bread to mouth, but it is perfectly unacceptable that they take such an attitude by not looking at other riders their associates. Some are children, others are stepchildren. Basically the FIA ​​has screwed up all those who do not call themselves Fernando Alonso. A shame.And if anyone is thinking "screw Olivier Pla", selfishly, of course, then what about Harry Tincknell, Mike Conway, Nicolas Lapierre, Renger Van der Zande, Bruno Senna and of course, all his teams, both WEC and IMSA, which now have a bad problem at hand. It will probably change the date of the Petit Le Mans race as well, but will it be just me to think that this, to be done, was how much everyone, FIA, WEC and IMSA had together, found a solution?

José Luis Abreu, direto de Portugal