Julian Mayo wrote:Maksutov wrote:
I agree. I've been following F1 for a very long time, almost 20 years now, and I can tell you that Max Mosley needs to go. He has completely lost it, has been losing it for the past 10 years and he got worse each year.
His constant changing of rules is the sole reason why the costs went up in the first place. He messed everything up and now he wants to cover his own crap. I can see the benefits of cost reduction and so do the FOTA teams, but the issue here is not cost it is the governance of Formula 1, stability of rules, professionalism of the sport which Max Mosley has completely destroyed. This is not war between FOTA and FIA, this is WAR between FOTA and one person - "Max Mosley" who still holds a grudge about his Nazi slave sex tape. This man is too old and stupid.
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Welcome to the forums, Maksutov!
As to the topic at hand, what we're seeing btwn. Sado-Max and FOTA is a game of chicken, which can only hurt the sport as a whole. FOTA(principally Ferrari) want to be able to spend whatever they want without regard, while the FIA is trying to do whatever it can to control those costs. I said it in an earlier post, but it bears repeating,
One of the problems I've noticed in motorsports for years is the continued increase in the costs to the teams in competing, not just in Formula 1 but in many major series across the board.
Look at some of the series that have disappeared from the motorsports map, not just in North America
but internationally............IMSA's GT Championship[which ultimately split into Grand-Am and the ALMS], WSC[World Sportscar Championship], Can-Am, Trans-Am[prior to 2006], DTM[German Touring Cars pre-1996], etc. Eventually one of three things are going to happen.......either FOTA wins and the sport's costs continue to spiral ever-upward, the FIA prevails and puts some form of sanity into the sport(granted, FIA and sanity can be mutally exclusive, but that's for another thread.......
)
or we see a CART/IRL-style split of Formula 1(which could make the AOW split look peaceful.......
).
Now, to be fair, Julian's right when he says that,
the FIA charter was to police the rules, not make them
but then I think, "Okay, who makes the rules then, the FIA or FOTA?" FWIW, I don't trust the teams to make the rules themselves; if their manner of running the sport is anything similar to what I've seen in NA motorsports, I definitely don't care to see that occur. OTOH, the FIA has had a bad habit of screwing up the sport over the years irrespective of what any of the teams can do. Hopefully, they'll find common ground and end this crisis, but it's going to take both sides giving up something for it to happen.
