Shock this week in the techno-nerd community as motorsport's governing body, with backup from associated clubs, took over the internet in a bloodless coup.

According to sauces, some of them unsavoury, the Governing Body didn't have an easy time wresting control of the internet from it's inventor, Al Gore, until they offered to purchase several million carbon credits from his other company.

Al Gore and the Internet, yesterday

Spokespersona-non-grata for the Governing Body, ex factory Trabant driver Marx Stalenin, claimed the coup was neccessary "for the Greater Good". "In the absence of professional-level reporting, publishing or promoting race results and other such things by the Governing Body and associated clubs, some individuals have resorted to doing it themselves using this interweb thingy" said Stalenin yesterday."We are outraged at some of the things people have been publishing on this worlwide net doohickey".

Although he refused to name examples of maverick publishing activity, concerned he would violate copyrights by using wrong words, Stalenin offered this; "Some individuals have taken it upon themselves to state who won, what they won, how fast they went, and in some cases, even naming the circuit they were driving on" said Stalenin yesterday. "This is not acceptable. The only logical way to kontrol this was to take over the internet, for the Greater Good, of course".

Stalenin inferred that their control wouldn't stop with motorsport information. "For example, a church group recently named a local philanthropist on their website as 'man of the year'. Who are they to assume they can own and allocate the title of 'man' and 'year' at their whim? What about other men? Or years? No, such arrogance needs to be curtailed. It's for the Greater Good" he repeated, several times, possibly also saying something like "It's for The Children", we're not sure.

Stalenin refusing to field questions from the media out the front of Motorsports Governing body HQ

We were later contacted by the governing body and told that we were not permitted to publish the terms "Greater Good " or "For The Children " as they are now registered trademarks.