Williams first to blink

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Hopefully, with the departure of Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, and other stronger teams like Brawn and Red Bull, maybe Franks tanks will return to their winning ways in F1 once again. :up:

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That's their only chance, winning against Force India, USF1, ISport and other F3 teams!

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Originally Posted by ioan

That's their only chance, winning against Force India, USF1, ISport and other F3 teams!

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.................and GP2 teams :p :

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

.................and GP2 teams :p :

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Yeah, maybe they get some from Formula Renault too.

Why don't they just rename it to Universal Formula while they are at it?
Or the Communist Formula?!

I don't see this as too much of an issue to FOTA which is in no way belittleing Williams.

In fact, I guess that Williams will have signed up with the agreement of FOTA.

Discussions would have been had with the other teams outlining why they are contracted to enter and FOTA is not about getting it's members drawn over the coals in court.

This way, they deflect a possible showdown with FOM and FIA who could have bullied Williams and created a real division.

Suddenly the wind is taken out of the FIA sails by this decision where the real bulk of FOTA is still solid until they get a resolution.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Statements like that often come back to bite you ioan,

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We'll talk about it when it happens.

PML :laugh:

That was a very nasty personal attack Henners :D

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

I don't see this as too much of an issue to FOTA which is in no way belittleing Williams.

In fact, I guess that Williams will have signed up with the agreement of FOTA.

Discussions would have been had with the other teams outlining why they are contracted to enter and FOTA is not about getting it's members drawn over the coals in court.

This way, they deflect a possible showdown with FOM and FIA who could have bullied Williams and created a real division.

Suddenly the wind is taken out of the FIA sails by this decision where the real bulk of FOTA is still solid until they get a resolution.

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Hopefully you are right.

ioan's gonna kick your ar$e :D

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Originally Posted by henners88

It already has bro :p

I have a great quote from you ioan:

'Did Honda F1 hire a new design team at the beginning of last season?
If they did than there is a chance for them to be faster than the others.
Otherwise it's a bit difficult to believe that a team that produced 2 very poor F1 racers in a row, and had no idea whatsoever how to improve them, will produce a car almost 1 second/lap faster than the competition.'

http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...=132071&page=2

And you said that a week before the first race.. So to take the mick out of Williams when you have made statements like that makes it worth me getting up in the morning ;) ...Maybe time will tell who knows?

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I was referring to Williams who had a fast car this season yet failed to do squat, in fact they are already behind Ferrari.

Yeah you are right I didn't think BrawnGP was genuinely that fast, one can be wrong every now and then.

Do I need to point out every time you were contradicted by facts? I doubt I have enough time to put them all together! :laugh:

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Originally Posted by ioan

Hopefully you are right.

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Ferrari have a huge pull in F1 that can be used to F1's advantage or disadvantage.

I am 100% behind the stand that they and the other FOTA members have taken in forcing this issue.

McLaren have strangly become the middlemen in all of this. Of course, they cannot step too far out of line with Max's beady eye on them but this has enabled them to be a good negiotiator and sounding board between the teams and Max / Bernie.

Williams signing up is no more significant at this stage than seeing the blind in Poker.