This piece of news is interesting to me and that is why I am posting it here.
"Last night at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has awarded seven-time F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher of the Legion of Honor.
Among the guests at the ceremony held in honor of the person making his return to F1 after three seasons of absence, could see his former boss at Ferrari and current FIA president Jean Todt and his great friend Jean Alesi.
"To find a relevant comparison, we must go back to the origins of Formula One and the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio, your only rival, "said the Prime Minister, we know a great lover of motorsport.
Earlier this month, the Lotus team manager Tony Fernandes had received same award for his contribution to aviation French (Fernandes is head of Air Asia).
Created by Napoleon in 1802, the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor is the highest honor that France's government may grant a non-French citizen." From Autoblog france.
1. Tony Fernandez contributed to French Aviation? How? Putting more croissants into his airlines? AirAsia for sure does not have any direct routes to France. Maybe lots of French tourists use AirAsia, in Asia? Maybe French people like giving out awards to people who've accomplished a lot throughout the world. Too many maybes.
2. Schummi on the other hand may be quite deserving of the award. He surely had tons of people throughout Europe admiring him for his achievements in motorsport. A whole lot of young Frenchmen would want to follow in his footsteps. But maybe they should become chefs and cooks as the French create beautiful food.
But Dato Tony Fernandez?
Anyway, now that Schummi is under a PETRONAS sponsored company and knowing the Malaysian way of doing things, I predict that Herr Schumacher will be given one of those awards from Malaysia soon. Like Dato' Jean Todt. We may see a Datuk Michael Schumacher soon.
Remember. If you read that Malaysia was giving Schummi an award.....YOU READ IT HERE FIRST!!!!!!
3 comments:
Haha, that last bit was priceless!
Well, last year Tony Fernandez met the French President Sarkozy who gave the authorization –quite hard to get in fact– to have AirAsiaX flying to Paris-Orly.
Why was it so easy for him to get that authorization?
Buying 2 new Airbus planes every month for the next five years, AirAsia is the best customer of the Toulouse-made plane (NB: Toulouse is in the South-West of France).
I guess that would explain the rest?
Thank you for the info about the Legion d'Honneur thing... That, I really did not know!
ah...airbus..forgot that their facilities are based in the land of croissants and foie gras...and escargot.
Post a Comment