Mosley wants action to 'save' F1

[Knock-on]

You can't save costs any better or be any greener than using customer cars...Not sure what Max is really trying to achieve, but the FIA are causing more problems than correcting them these days. Don't get what is going on.

I really believe Max is the problem, and always have. He moans about how F1 is run, that's not his job that's Bernies.

Agree wholeheartedly with you.

The FIA is there to govern the sport from a regulations perspective.

They are supposed to set technical and sporting rules and enforce them in a consistent and fair way.

Yeah, right

F1 cannot go on much longer as it is.

[ioan]

I have a feeling that with the current financial troubles there might be a very natural spending cap on F1 teams. If there will be F1 at all in a couple of years.

[MAX_THRUST]

If F1 fails in the next few years who will we all blame........tha man that contiunaly brings the sport into the press often for the wrong reasons. At the end of the day Max wants the sport to fail with in two years of him leaving.

We are dealing with a bitter man at the moment, vengefull man. If he is justified to feel aggrieved is your own opinion, but sinking F1 because of his petty pollitics is not acceptable. I am deeply concerned about his behaviour and I think many others will start to speak openly as well.

What with Ferraris recent sour grapes, and involvement in A1GP who knows what will happen next to F1 and what threats Ferrari will throw. Now more than ever the series organises need to be balanced in there approach and fair. Customer cars must surely be introduced soon.

[Dave B]

I have a feeling that with the current financial troubles there might be a very natural spending cap on F1 teams. If there will be F1 at all in a couple of years.

Teams will cut their coat according to their cloth - they always have and always will.

The danger is that in the medium-term the big manufacturers, having bought up or invested in the traditional garagistes, will pull out or significantly reduce their involvement. How these teams cope with their changed circumstances we can only speculate, but those who best manage the transition will be in a strong position.

[ArrowsFA1]

I think many others will start to speak openly as well...

Sadly we've seen what happens if they dare try

[Knock-on]

Following a meeting in Paris on Tuesday, the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) issued the following statement:

“The WMSC unanimously agreed to give the FIA President authority to negotiate with the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) the introduction of radical measures to achieve a substantial reduction of costs in the championship from 2010.

“Failing agreement with FOTA, the FIA will enforce the necessary measures to achieve this goal.

“It was further unanimously agreed to allow Formula One teams to equalise engine performance across the field for 2009, pending the introduction of cost-saving measures from 2010.”

So, the teams accept Max's ideas or they get implemented anyway

Way to negiotiate max

And what is the 2nd part all about?

The teams can "equalise" engine performance before next year.

What does that mean exactly?

[ArrowsFA1]

F2 "on the cheap" seems to be Max's model for the future of F1. I only hope that FOTA has the strength of purpose to come up with proposals that the FIA President can, or will, accept.

[V12]

F2 "on the cheap" seems to be Max's model for the future of F1.

That's a very scary thought indeed. Even scarier is the fact that you may well be right. I for one am sitting with my fingers crossed that "F2" crashes and burns, because if it does change the face of motorsport as we know it, I for one won't stick around to watch.

[Dave B]

The teams can "equalise" engine performance before next year.

What does that mean exactly?

It means an admission that the freeze on development as a cost-saving measure has failed massively.

Instead of investing year-by-year in engine development, manufacturers will now pour huge sums into one massive push next year.

Result: no money saved, and a likely advantage for the large teams who can allocate huge resources quickly.

[Daniel]

After watching Max on the news "BBC national news", I am afraid of what he will do next. He is clearly stupid!!! With all the stuff that has gone on about favouritism, he sits with a ferrari behind him. Not a problem really until the BBC zoom in at the end of the interview on it. Implying what I wonder?

Who was implying what you're wondering about? not Max himself. If he's had a STR there would people be talking about it? If he was REALLY so heavily biased as people say would he be stupid enough to have a Ferrari behind him in his office? I wouldn't say so.

I agree that capping is a load of bull. What you need to do is limit the benefits of pouring millions and millions into developing things so if Ferrari or McLaren want to spend millions developing a new type of screw which will give them a .0000001 second per lap advantage then they can but there will be no real point in doing it. Then you effectively cap F1 without having to enforce caps which is pretty much impossible. Ban the teams from making ANY aero changes unless they can show evidence that there is a safety issue and give them a variety of standard wings to choose from and you've just cut millions from the budgets of every F1 team. If you limit the potential for development of a car you limit the effectiveness of spending millions of euro's dollars pounds on development.