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Welcome To My Parlour Says Mosley
Topic Started: Jun 9 2009, 07:18 AM (237 Views)
everythingoes
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FIA president Max Mosley has written to the eight remaining Formula One Teams' Association members urging them to enter next year's championship unconditionally so they can help shape the rules they want, AUTOSPORT can reveal.

After a weekend of high tension at the Turkish Grand Prix ahead of the publication on Friday of the 2010 entry list, Mosley's much-awaited response to the eight FOTA teams appeared conciliatory.

Mosley claimed that the best way the teams could help mould the future of the sport the way they wanted would be to drop the conditions attached to the entries they had made to the 2010 championship.

In fact, he reckoned it would be 'simple' to find a solution to FOTA's concerns about new rules if all the teams lodged unconditional entries and signed up for a budget cap - before helping create new regulations.


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I see this as a ploy. If FOTA accepts this, they can be sure that Max will continue to ride rough-shod as he has been dong in the absence of a Concorde agreement.

With the new entrant teams not being a part of FOTA, straight away FOTA's influence is diluted. Max will just divide and have his way.

If it a compromise that Max wants, why doesn't he compromise and accept the conditional entries, then sit down to discuss the rules with all the participant teams?
He cites rules that don't allow conditional entries, but he's happily broken and dispensed with quite a few of the conventions in introducing the new rules, so why not here?

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why is he writing the rules in the first place?
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the FIA, as the authorizing body, writes the rules for the sport.

as to Max, I'd tell him to stuff it. I wouldn't trust him to play fair.
I'd respond by saying that let's start negotiations now with a specfic deadline to meet certain goals and if he doesn't move, then that's it.
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but isn't there a difference between the rules and what Max is doing?

Tinkering with all aspects of the sport?
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The manufacturers don't actually need F1 as has been pointed out as so many have said... They may think enough is enough we can race elsewhere (and not necessarily in a newly formed FOTA series)

Equally Max and Co. are confident they don't need the manufacturers (even Ferrari) they still have engine options, maybe even VW will give it a bash, entering when the real competition has left paid huge dividends at LeMans so why not repeat history in the 'all max F1 series'

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So Max wants the teams to sign up unconditionally on the promise that he will do something he has not ever done before (listen to the teams). Does the FOTA have sucker written across their collective foreheads?
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timmadigan,Jun 9 2009
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the FIA, as the authorizing body, writes the rules for the sport.

Yes, but..... they are supposed to do it in consultation with the teams, no impose carte blanche. Without a Concorde Agrrement, Max can do what he likes, and the teams know that. Of course, the FIA are supposed to do the rules, not Max himself, however if the FIA's president wants to do something I guess the rest of the body has no recourse....
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Norbert,Jun 9 2009
11:04 AM
timmadigan,Jun 9 2009
04:32 PM
the FIA, as the authorizing body, writes the rules for the sport.

Yes, but..... they are supposed to do it in consultation with the teams, no impose carte blanche. Without a Concorde Agrrement, Max can do what he likes, and the teams know that. Of course, the FIA are supposed to do the rules, not Max himself, however if the FIA's president wants to do something I guess the rest of the body has no recourse....

Bloody coup?
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According to Autosport© there will be a statment in responce to Max today...

no word yet <rolleyes>
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Either Max is too tied up at the moment, or he wants FOTA to beat a decision out of him

<whistle>
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Rob,Jun 9 2009
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So Max wants the teams to sign up unconditionally on the promise that he will do something he has not ever done before (listen to the teams). Does the FOTA have sucker written across their collective foreheads?

Max apparently thinks so, because it was his suggestion that they submit conditional entries in the first place <doh>
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