Formula One 2009 season (F1 motor racing)

Seems Max is playing hardball back:

Source ITV-F1.com

What F1 does better than any other sport is politics. This one really is quite interesting. Shame for Button it's on the British Grand Prix weekend.

Ouch:

Sauce: ITV-F1.com

I can hardly wait to watch Williams, Force India and three or four brand new teams racing each other next year under the Real F1 banner - talk about excitement! It's bound to be on TV somewhere. Kazagistan maybe?

Actually I'd be surprised if the broadcasters' contracts didn't oblige them to show F1 next year. Of course, whether anyone will be watching is another question. That's quite a nightmare for commercial broadcasters.

If this happens I'm sure the TV companies will find a way to claim breach of contract on the part of F1 allowing them to not hand over any further payments for the TV rights.

There will be a lot of rich lawyers after the dust settles.

What I fail to see is how the FIA have swung their role around from Police man to Policy maker.
Aren't they supposed to be watching over the sport and see that it is run correctly and have enough power to ensure rules are not broken.
It seems to me that they have invented a role for themselves, their behaviour smacks of someone who is putting up smoke screens to stop people asking the question "What exactly is it you are supposed to be doing in this sport?"
Are the FIA running F1 for the teams and for the racing or are they running it to give themselves Power, Influence and Money?

If they do end up breaking away, it will be the ones who secure the Monaco GP that will be the winners. There is only one Monaco, Everyone wants to win it, there is only one date it can be held.

Most of the F1 tracks are available all year round.

Will Bernie see the light and jump ship too (I imagine there are too many contracts in place for that)

I don't think Bernie should be creaming off the amount he does. Dump Bernie; this would be the beggest cost cutting measure. Dump the FIA and appoint another governing body. The teams are F1 NOT the FIA

I disagree about Monaco. I don't think it is that special. I know the commentators blahhh on about it being the jewel in the crown, but I reckon they are overfluffing the issue.

or put it this way:

Supposing the "B team" won the rights for Monaco, and the "A team" didn't get it...the great unwashed would NOT tune into watch the B-Team championship just because 1 race in 12
was held at Monaco.

It is the Emperors New Clothes in my humble opinion. It doesn't even produce good racing 'cos you can't overtake so the pole position guy always wins.

The challenge could be that I suspect any circuit that ran a 'rebel' race would not be allowed to run any FIA events.

Now given that the majour manufacturers tend to be supplying cars to the lower formulas then there could actually be quite an interesting stand off.

Is DTM FIA affiliated , for example?

I find it interesting that F1.com which is now owned by the FIA doesn't make a peep about this scandal.

I imagine that would be illegal, in Europe at least. Besides, they can keep Hungary, Bahrain and all the other plastic tracks and we can have Spa, Silverstone and the Canadian GP back ;-)

It's actually owned by FOM which is Bernie's crowd not the FIA, not that there's much difference these days.

I wonder if Williams and Force India will even make it to the grid next year if the breakaway goes ahead given that they use engines from Mercedes and Toyota respectively. There's no reason to assume that the new F1 would run the same spec engines as the old F1 and I can't see there being much incentive for Merc or Toyota to produce engines especially for the other side.

Either way, it's a pretty useless site. If you search for Ferrari, the newest story they come up with is from 2 August 2007: "McLaren: Ferrari won with illegal car"

Yep, it is indeed! The only thing it's good for is the live timing.

Tim.

FIA are now to take legal action against FOTA and delay announcing the 2010 F1 entry list.

From ITV-F1.com