As the teams return to the UK and the dust begins to settle on an explosive weekend, we start to contemplate the next stage in the saga over Lewis Hamilton and McLaren ‘deliberately misleading’ the stewards.
The feeling on Saturday was that Hamilton’s frank and astonishing ‘mea culpa’, held in the FIA press conference room, was [...]
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The next stage in McLaren-gate
Posted in Discussion, F1 News, FOTA, McLaren, tagged F1, lie-gate, McLaren on April 6, 2009 | 83 Comments »
Messy start to season in prospect
Posted in F1 News, FOTA, tagged F1 News, FIA, FOTA on March 21, 2009 | 72 Comments »
It was all looking so good, Ross Brawn saves the Honda team, the car turns out to be a rocket ship, David threatens Goliath, a shake up of the old order was in prospect. The racing was shaping up to be really close, with many teams on roughly the same pace. In other words [...]
A reminder of how the budget cap was trailed
Posted in F1 News, FOTA, tagged F1, FIA on March 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Just going back through my email archive I came across the February 29th press release from the FIA anticipating what arrived yesterday. Take a look, especially paragraph 3 and see how it evolved from here.
“In view of the difficult economic conditions which continue to affect Formula One sponsors and major car manufacturers, the FIA is [...]
A closer look at FOTA’s F1 TV plans
Posted in Discussion, FOTA, tagged F1, FOTA, TV on March 6, 2009 | 15 Comments »
From a fans’ point of view the big story from yesterday’s FOTA press conference was the changes they’d like to make to shorten the races, change the points and boost the TV coverage.
Martin Whitmarsh spoke about the desire to change the points system to reward the winner and podium finishers and to shorten the races [...]
Behind the scenes at FOTA
Posted in Discussion, F1 News, FOTA, tagged F1, FOTA on March 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday was frantic. I got up at 4-30am in London and got the 6-50am BA flight to Geneva with a load of excited people who were going skiiing. Geneva was cold and wet, the motor show is on, but there isn’t much enthusiasm from (or for) the car industry at the moment.
The FOTA press conference [...]
FOTA cuts budgets by 50% and changes points
Posted in F1 News, FOTA, tagged F1, FOTA on March 5, 2009 | 24 Comments »
The Formula One Teams Association held its first press conference today here in Geneva and the show of strength from the teams underlined how united they are.
The headlines are that they have agreed to measures for 2010 which will cut budgets by 50% compared to the 2008 season. This will mean teams like Force India [...]
