Jordan advises Lewis to "take Massa's wheel off" if pushed

Just a couple of days ago a rumor surfaced that Eddie Jordan may join the BBC's coverage next year, and already the rock n' rolling ex-team principal is causing controversy with his most recent comment. In an interview Eddie suggests that Massa may attempt a "professional foul" like he did in Japan, and if that happens, he believes "Lewis has to turn his wheel into Massa to ensure he does not finish the race either – he has to take his wheel off".

Now, that is an incendiary comment if I ever saw one. It is true that in the last 20 years we have seen plenty of what Eddie calls "professional fouls" in the title deciding races, most notably successful ones from Prost, Senna and Schumi in 1989, 1990 and 1994, respectively, and an unsuccessful one from Schumi in 1997. In the latter case, the manouver earned Schumi the image of Dick Dastardly of F1, and an exclusion from that year's championship. However, for someone like Eddie to come out and say outloud that Lewis should "do a Schumi" on Massa is a little bit much - he is an insider to the sport and comments like this just put F1 in a bad light. It is bad enough that there are conspiracy theories flying around - the sport does not need for (ex) top brass to openly endorse such behavior among the drivers.

And then there is the simple question whether Eddie is actually right in saying that Massa committed a professional foul when he hit Lewis in Fuji. In my opinion Massa did not intentionally hit Lewis in the same way that Prost, Senna and Schumi did to their title rivals. All he did was to attempt an overly ambitious / stupid move on Lewis that just happened not to totally backfire on him. So pretty much like Lewis' overly ambitious / stupid breaking manouver on Kimi into turn one, which just happened to backfire on Lewis. But than again, Lewis zealots are probably blaming god for being on Ferrari's side and punishing Lewis so that the championship battle could continue until Brazil :)