Breakaway series is go!

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Originally Posted by wmcot

Funny that there's no mention of this on the "Official Website," formulaone.com! Maybe it hasn't sunk in yet?

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This is not common to mention internal dispute of organization or institutions supporting an event on official website.

However with the no mention, still likely the breakaway series is a no go... ;)

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Originally Posted by woody2goody

Why not? Why should we not love these teams as much as the others.

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How can you even like these teams when they never turned a wheel in anger?! When they have no personality?!

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Originally Posted by Robinho

finally i'd like to see Ron Dennis back in some role, all friendly with the Ferrari guys, if only to lay a Cleveland Steamer on Max's chest! ;)

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:rotflmao:

Great news, Max and Bernie can go and collectively fcuk themselves, now all we have to hope is that FOTA is 100% serious with this and will follow through.

That F1 next year with Williams, Force India, Campos and manure racing or whatever its called, sure will make a great series :rotflmao:

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Originally Posted by ioan

How can you even like these teams when they never turned a wheel in anger?! When they have no personality?!

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That, for me, is the essence of Formula 1. The history, that the teams and the championship have been around for a long, long time. That Formula 1 can trace it's roots back to well before the war, right to the establishment of motor racing itself.

That Formula 1 is important and winning in Formula 1 marks you down in history.

A split series wether it be the weakened F1 or the FOTA series, will not have any of that prestige.

i feel quite sorry for Williams, FI and the new guys and i hope they are investigating ways of getting out already and jumping ship - their sponsors will be busy trying to default, so wind the teams up and reform under a new name and join the rest?

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Originally Posted by VkmSpouge

I think you might have got the wrong end of the stick of what I was trying to say; I was comparing the 2009 championship with the 10 current teams to the proposed breakaway 2010 FOTA series of 8 teams.
Of course at the moment the 2010 FIA championship will be 50% weaker in terms of grid numbers and despite the number of new teams applying for entry, I seriously doubt all of them would be able to enter next year.
So there will be two weaker series though I must say FOTA's series looks more likely succeed simply because it does have all the big names.

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That looks better! ;)

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

The one man who has remained very quiet recently is Bernie. It's hard to imagine him sat at home watching this mucking fess and doing nothing about it. Although his once legendary ability to 'sort' things has waned in recent times he is still a major player and I do wonder which side he will ultimately come down on.

Could there be a possibility that, just has Max has F1 & F2, Bernie will develop the exisiting GP2 series and we will see a 'new' GP1 series made up of the FOTA teams.

The reason I think this is a possibility is that FOTA say: "The major drivers, stars, brands, sponsors, promoters and companies historically associated with the highest level of motorsport will all feature in this new series."

It would be almost impossible to make that statement without at least the tacit backing of Bernie...wouldn't it?

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It says the major ones, not all of them.
IMO Bernie and CVC are the reason for this breakaway. They are at the root of all these stupid cost cutting dictatorial rules.

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Originally Posted by Mark

I hope you are right. I just can't see a FOTA series working. They think the teams is all they need?

They've got the teams and drivers. But they haven't got a TV deal, certainly in the UK they won't get one with the BBC, and very unlikely with ITV too.

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Why not with ITV?!

Of course it's now gone beyond a simple protest about the budget cap. We're on the brink of a full scale civil war for control of Formula 1.

cos ITV have less money than Sir Alan Stanford has access to at the moment