How feasible is a breakaway series?

The way I see it, is the worst situation for a track would be, they agree to hold a breakaway race, then the FIA does not hold any more events at that circuit (as far as I can see, those would be the only races they have any say over to that extent).

The current FIA series are (circuit based);
Formula One
World Touring Car
FIA GT Championship
FIA GT3 Championship
Formula Two

I imagine the second largest behind F1 are the combined WTCC/F2 events. So a circuit basically has to weight up whether the combined income (ie attendance, media support, sponsorship) from F1 plus WTCC/F2 would be greater than the breakaway series. I cannot imagine WTCC events attract even one tenth the 'income' of current F1.....

This is really starting to look serious for F1. I'm sure that there could be some sort of breakaway series up and running by next year, even if it was a shorter calendar. I'm sure there would be a lot of problems with doing it, and car count may be an issue, but it must be possible. F1 should have enough entries to fill the grid, but most of the famous names will be gone, and presumably most of the drivers with them. This argument could very easily end most peoples' interest in F1 (though not necessarily move it to the new series, as with the CART split).

I think that Bernie must be incredibly worried. He also must be wishing that he got rid of Max when he had an opportunity last year!

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Hell, this is getting way out of hand - and it needn't be like this. Haven't they seen the mess left over from the CART/Indycar split?

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Apparently no one in F1 is willing to learn from history. Still a couple of days left to find a proper compromise.

I think Le Mans is where they will end up, at least short term.

I think the smartest thing FOTA can do is to make like NASCAR: sanction their own races and buy/build their own tracks.

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Originally Posted by shazbot

So what would we call this break away series?

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I vote for Formula A.

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Originally Posted by call_me_andrew

I think the smartest thing FOTA can do is to make like NASCAR: sanction their own races and buy/build their own tracks.

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The sport is supposed to be cutting costs and you want them to spend >16 x ~$100M on circuits? :eek:

Actually, the hardest thing of running new championship is how to socialize the sport more worldwide. The said new championship would never be world-famous if the races held only in Europe and few regions unused by F1.

They can start negotiating to host the race at tracks are currently not in tie with F1 or tracks open for public without having to ask approval directly from FIA. Yet, if the sport compressing big teams like Ferrari, McLaren, or Renault, I think the sport will not be too difficult to become worldwide.

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Originally Posted by shazbot

So what would we call this break away series?

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I have the perfect name!
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Unluckily SpeedCar already taken.

Sorry, CART is a strong reminder of Carting, a dog sport. Fernando will not be happy to hold degree being champion of the sport ...

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Originally Posted by Oli_M

The way I see it, is the worst situation for a track would be, they agree to hold a breakaway race, then the FIA does not hold any more events at that circuit (as far as I can see, those would be the only races they have any say over to that extent).

The current FIA series are (circuit based);
Formula One
World Touring Car
FIA GT Championship
FIA GT3 Championship
Formula Two

I imagine the second largest behind F1 are the combined WTCC/F2 events. So a circuit basically has to weight up whether the combined income (ie attendance, media support, sponsorship) from F1 plus WTCC/F2 would be greater than the breakaway series. I cannot imagine WTCC events attract even one tenth the 'income' of current F1.....

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News flash: given the huge sums that Bernie extorts for running f1 on these circuits the circuits do not make any profit out of F1, they usually have huge losses and the governments have to pay for them to stay alive.