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Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Paul

Paul — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:18:53 +0000

James

Question for a future posting (I hope)…

What is the penalty if a team decide not to race? (ie, they choose not to take to the track)

I’m assuming it’s an absolutely enormous penalty against their rights money?

Thanks
Paul

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:13:45 +0000

Sick and tired of all this. Again!!
If this is what F1 has become then it can’t die soon enough. I ever wanted to watch egotistical, dumb and spoilt men behavind like 5 year olds on a playground I’d be watching PM Question Time on Wednesdays… The “F1″ brand as these people like to refer to it has been turned into a sad joke in 2009.

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Mon Pen

Mon Pen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:59:24 +0000

I have yet to see anyone post, here or elsewhere on various message boards and blogs, anything like the phrase “Hey isn’t all this politics and strutting GREAT for the sport!”.

Fans are unanimously sick and tired of all this. Somewhere in the dim background a couple of unimportant nobodies called Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel are lined up for a ding dong of a season ender that might match Wimbledon’s men’s final on Sunday.

But hey, nobody’s interested in that. What the fans really want to read about is the FIA and FOTA slugging it out.

I really can see this killing the sport, people will be turning over to Coronation Street in their hundreds of thousands.

Thanks Max, Bernie, Luca, Flavio, for tainting the sport, your chest beating antics are pathetic.

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Mike Dawson

Mike Dawson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:48:26 +0000

Ok Stop all of this now.

This is getting more than a little silly.

Thankfully there’s some other great sport happening around the world, of which I am a fan as I am of top level single seater racing. So, diluting that into two series isn’t such a bad thing.

Take the 2007/8 seasons, if all of this nonsense happened during those seasons F1 would have just moved on, no problem. But this year, this year is a different story. There’s no real fight for the championship, with all due respect to Brawn, it’s not the same as an older established team slogging away for years building up an history in F1 and winning a championship.

So in this respect, the FIA and FOTA can pull themselves apart, who cares. I can move on next year and remember those classic seasons of the past. Maybe in ten years time we’ll have another great series.

(Would be great to see ‘european’ cars at Laguna Seca again)

Comment on New teams on collision course with FOTA? by john g

john g — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:41:52 +0000

so after the FIA confirmed in an official press release that 13 teams were entered into next years championship (and that ferrari and red bull were always entered, despite their disagreement), the FIA are now saying that there are only 5 teams entered, and only these teams can input into discussions regarding the changing of next years rules. didn’t max basically force them to sign up as the only way of changing next years rules?

he simply cannot be trusted. he had no interest in making this work for the good of the sport and the fans, he just wanted to demonstrate that he still had control. this delay has eaten into FOTA’s time to organise a new race series but hopefully they are still able to.

in the meantime,

VOTE ARI

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:34:24 +0000

As upset as I am with Mosely and the FIA right now, I have to agree with you. Luca should have kept his mouth shut. Publicly humiliating Max is like throwing gas on a fire…everyone, except Luca it seems, knows that.

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Neil

Neil — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:33:15 +0000

I agree totally!

Either all the teams participate in setting the rules, or none of them do. How can an invite-only subset of the teams be allowed to set the rules? That seems to totally break the FOTA demands for transparency and fairness.

As usual, no winners and lots of losers.

Neil.

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by SWR

SWR — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:21:46 +0000

Some of you imply that FOTA wants to dictate the rules. I don’t see it that way. They simply want the same woting rights as the other 5 teams (i.e. the same influence as the other teams). They are pissed that Max is only allowing them observer status and only let the 5 other teams have influence on the rules.

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by NikJ

NikJ — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:20:35 +0000

James – I have to agree with Steve’s comments above that whilst certain people in FOTA should have been more discreet following the Paris meeting, the main cause of this latest dispute is the FIA. When I read your take on it in comparisons to others sites, you seem to lay more emphasis on FOTA causing this latest dispute. Is there more to these walkouts than meets the eye, I thought the FOTA guys were very happy with the settlement post Paris.

As a footnote, a number of my friends are big F1 fans and this is really taking the gloss of the sport, for the people I know that are just possible supporters they believe this has all become a joke. There could be a huge detriment to the sport here and I believe you have touched on it with how unhappy CVC are as they can see what it will do to the support.

Comment on F1 – What’s going on now? by Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:13:56 +0000

FOTA probably though that 1) they had a deal( ie, had everything pinned down), and 2) they would have at least been allowed to participate in the meeting.