Emotions In Italy

Flipping through the Formula One news, the newest thing around the Internet is the demand of the resignation of Luca di Montezemolo, Ferrari's president.  

"Ferrari has managed to lose a championship already won," said Calderoni, who serves in the Italian government. "We are ashamed of this insane strategy and Di Montezemolo is guilty. He should get out of Maranello immediately so he does no further harm to Ferrari. By the evening, we expect his resignation."

To which Di Montezemolo had replied: "When the statesman Calderoli has achieved in his life one per cent of what Ferrari has done for this country in terms of industry and sports, then he'll deserve an answer."

I can understand the upset as a country and as a government, but demanding the resignation of a member of the team that has managed to get one of their driver's to that point?  It seems outrageous. I am not the largest Ferrari supporter out there but I still look at the comments of the Italian government in disgust. Ferrari is a name sake in Formula One and the 2010 season was not any different.  Coming into the final stretch of the season, there were five men and four teams all gunning to win.  You don't see any members of Parliament in the United Kingdom demanding the resignation of Ron Dennis is chairman of the McLaren Group?

For a country to feel so ashamed of a single man and his impact on a team as to ask for his resignation?  I congratulate Di Montezemolo on when he responds in such a manor as to say, “We’re sorry to see that there are some politicians on the outside who are ready to push for the guillotine when things go badly, We don’t understand anyone who revels in self-defeatism, who sinks into the culture of ‘everything’s gone wrong, we have to start all over again."