Being a free minded person is a good thing! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
You can however keep your box closed! :p :
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Being a free minded person is a good thing! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
You can however keep your box closed! :p :
And ofcourse there is NO proof for this, but Brundle's Science-Fiction column! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
BTW, you know it very well that I would have loved to see the end of Ron "Integrity" Dennis and McLiars in F1, and it would have been a very just decision based on how much they harmed F1 last year. Compared to them Max's little adventure was a walk in the park. But some can't tell apples from oranges, neither based on color nor on taste.
Simply because these kind of groups come under the FIA. Is the FIA not supposed to represent motorists as well as govern motor racing? As such the FIA President is accountable One of the issues with this, graphically illustrated by the news of Max's case against the NOTW being held in France, is that he is seen generally as the "boss of F1", not the FIA President.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
Brundle's opinions on the subject were not a lone voice, and he made a telling point:Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle3021312.eceQuote:
The timing of the writ is significant, in my view, given the FIA’s decision to find Renault guilty of having significant McLaren designs and information within their systems, but not administering any penalty. It is a warning sign to other journalists and publications to choose their words carefully over that decision. I’m tired of what I perceive as the “spin” and tactics of the FIA press office, as are many other journalists. I expect my accreditation pass for next year will be hindered in some way to make my coverage of F1 more difficult and to punish me. Or they will write to ITV again to say that my commentary is not up to standard despite my unprecedented six Royal Television Society Awards for sports broadcasting. So be it.
However, it seems rather than restricting Brundle's accreditation, or complaining to ITV, the FIA have quietly dropped their case against Brundle/The Times after initially making a great deal of noise about it. Far more effective to do that, and call people "half-wits" to gain attention, than it is to actually substantiate those claims.
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Originally Posted by ioan
So, oranges don't require peeling, do they, or is that apples.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Oh shoot, I'm all confused now. What was the question again? ;)
Automoto365.com recently wrote a little about Mosley in their "spies from Canada" piece, because they require registration, I will copy here the relevant quotes.
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Apart from an exciting race and the usual aggravation with the tarmac, the paddock spoke about a war between Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley. Whenever these two argue in public you have to ask yourself whether it is not just show. This time at least there was a little bit more of a serious note to it. Bernie is an employee of CVC, the commercial right holders of Formula One and therefore he has to work on behalf of CVC and play the music they want him to play.
Max Mosley is the biggest threat to CVC and he does not want to give up his veto-right on any potential buyer. He insists that the FIA has to keep authority over the rules, and he is refusing to sign a new Concorde Agreement. Firstly the FIA does not need a new one, the CVC does, and so do the teams. Mosley only wants to sign this agreement,if there are plans on how to tackle the rising costs. His proposal is to bring the Concorde Agreement back to the basics of the very first one in 1981, in which the commercial right holder only got 8 percent from the income and the teams had the rest. This is obviously completely against the interests of CVC, who thin, that 50/50 is the maximum they could afford.
Whatever they say, there are plans to sell Formula One, all the evidence points to it. Some people believe that Rupert Murdoch is interested in Formula One, but only as long as it is good value. The problem is the FIA with Max Mosley as a strong president. The government will do everything to keep the shares in F1 as unattractive as possible. At the moment the value of the sport is getting smaller and smaller with all the unsolved problems that we have, with all the blocking factors to get more money out of it. For example, no Concorde Agreement means no stability.
For CVC the scandal about Mosley’s private life was like a Christmas present, because that opened a campaign to get rid of him. They never thought that Max would stand up against it, but as soon as it became clear that he got the necessary votes in the FIA's general assembly, CVC sent Ecclestone to the front to say in public that Max should resign. The question now is whether Bernie is just doing what he is asked to do, or whether he wants this himself. He organized two team principal meetings in which he wanted a joint statement from the teams against Max, and in case he should refuse to resign, Bernie has put a breakaway championship on the table as an alternative. The interesting part of this story is, just who has the last joker up his sleeve?
Rumours say, that Max Mosley does now know the people who set him up and paid for the sting but it is well possible that a few people inside CVC have become a bit nervous. Whatever the truth behind the story is, Max Mosley might come out of it all with a repaired image.
I'm all for Mosley and a new Concorde agreement that would bring costs down and give the teams a bigger share of the money, this would mean more teams in F1 in the future.
And these are Max's real intentions I suppose that the teams will support him rather than the CVC.
Isn't that website owned by Nicolas Todt's company. Perhaps, in the light of Jean Todt's defence of Max the contents are not too surprising.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
All good stuff.Quote:
Bernie is an employee of CVC...Mosley is the biggest threat to CVC...For CVC the scandal about Mosley’s private life was like a Christmas present...Rumours say, that Max Mosley does now know the people who set him up and paid for the sting but it is well possible that a few people inside CVC have become a bit nervous
As good as the one where you say that Max wanted to punish McLaren because he had a personal problem with Ron! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
It's not me saying that ioan, it's been widely reported and dates back a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan