After Lie-gate and Diffuser-gate comes We’re-not-racing-in-a-two-tier-F1-gate, as a number of teams have started ganging up on the FIA with big dirty threats of quitting the show next season.
It began with Ferrari’s warning (which locked them into that tussle with Max Mosley) and now Toyota and both the Red Bull teams are making noises about doing a bunk should the proposed two sets of regulations stay put.
Worse than that, squillionaire Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz has also hinted that all of the manufacturer teams will follow suit.
It started kicking off when the big F1 budget cap rules were announced the other week – those who sign up for the capped fee will be afforded greater technical freedoms than those who don’t, effectively chopping the grid into two classes.
Bernie Ecclestone must be doing his Andy Warhol-like head in at the moment. There’s no way he wants to see an F1 grid with only a handful of teams lining up at the beginning of next season.
But this furore is playing into Mosley’s hands – he’s a master of subterfuge. I reckon he’ll step up and say, ‘alright lads, calm down. All you have to do is sign-up to this ‘ere budget cap, and we’ll give you all one set of technical regulations. See? Easy.’
They’ll set it at say £100m next year, then lower it by £10m a year until it reaches a more manageable £60m come 2014. An idea that initially might have been difficult to sell, but in light of the current dissatisfaction would now look like a kebab to a drunkard.
Max gets the budget cap he wants, Bernie keeps all the players in the game – plus some new ones – and the teams all get a level playing field to bat about on.
Everyone’s happy.
Even the fans?
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Paul Oliver commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 9:08 am
Brawn GP will win the championship and also all the teams were thinking of pulling out thety were just waiting for a bigger team to come out and admit they were first
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pete :-) commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Brawn GP will win the championship, Bernie c*ck!!!
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mcradlaren commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I can’t simply understand who do Max and Bernie think they are? How can they dare to decide who will spend what? We are talking about economic and technologic giants like Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Ferrari, Renault who have been around for what, 100 years? Is it possible that one of them will ever need FIA or someone else, to protect itself from itself? If F1 is no longer sustainable with its current economic status and any constructive decision can’t be made by all parties involved, then it will be destroyed and something new will come up just because everybody agrees. Not because one or two who think he knows the best. There has always been one and only common point between incompetent ones, those do whatever they do just because they can.
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murciealago LP640 commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 3:16 pm
how can red bull be going? theyve done soooo well with J B. i think Max Mosley should be replaced.
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jeff-ro commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 3:19 pm
i think that f1 is getting worse by the year, beacause max mosley needs to get a life
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chavs reunited456 commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 3:23 pm
hey man waz up? yeh F1 getting pretty rubbish man yeh cos martin brundell talk about problems lot ( i always bunk of school so i dont know howw too sppell) mate innit puff puff
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FIRST GEAR commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 3:48 pm
heres the standings
1. Jenson Button Brawn GP 41
2. Rubens Barrichello Brawn GP 27
3. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing 23
4. Mark Webber Red Bull Racing 15.5
5. Jarno Trulli Toyota 14.5
6. Timo Glock Toyota 12
7. Fernando Alonso Renault 9
8. Lewis Hamilton McLaren Mercedes 9
9. Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 6
10. Nico Rosberg Williams 4.5
11. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren Mercedes 4
12. Sebastien Buemi Scuderia Toro Rosso 3
13. Felipe Massa Ferrari 3
14. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 3
15. Sebastien Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 1
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604Yarks commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 4:09 pm
So the teams with the budget cap get full technical freedom.
uh-huh.
And how doe you suppose they’ll develop said technology? Paying the staff in corn?
Moronic.
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CASIO commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 5:39 pm
thanks for the standings first gear
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i thought i commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 5:40 pm
max mosleys bottom
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i thought i commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 5:47 pm
lamborghinis rule!
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Tonante commented on this article
Thursday May 14, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Who said Ferrari must replace F1 with LMS or… Nascar????? O__O
What about the IRL??? What about the Ferrari wins the Indy 500???
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Allegerita commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 7:04 am
If Ferrari walks, so do the fans. That means Maxi is up a creek without a paddle!
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Hermann Kratz commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 3:21 pm
£200m budget cap next year with new rules. Free up the engines!
Then reduce the cap by £20m per season. Easy does it.
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i thorght i commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 4:29 pm
i saw today that a few more teams will be coming to f1 like usf1
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kubica onboard spain commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 6:00 pm
video here
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f1 at bahrain commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 6:01 pm
F1 Bahrain Highlights 2004-2008
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m.brundel commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 6:02 pm
what is it with chavs reunited?
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f1 fanatic commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 6:06 pm
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO’S
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mark commented on this article
Friday May 15, 2009 at 11:01 pm
£40 million budget cap this is designed to destroy ferrari and mclaren, all thought out by max mosley as retaliation.. why is this old pervert allowd to ruin the sport
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F1 review 2008 commented on this article
Sunday May 17, 2009 at 10:44 am
I AGREE WITH 149 COMMENT COMPLETLY.
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Disappointed commented on this article
Monday May 18, 2009 at 5:38 am
F1 has always been about the team that can build the best car! If you don’t have the money, find another form of racing. Mosley and Bernie are pandering to the small teams and effectively telling the bigger teams to get lost – what a shame.
F1 won’t exist without the bigger teams.
LEAVE THINGS ALONE…..
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453 commented on this article
Monday May 18, 2009 at 3:18 pm
AGREE WITH 149 COMMENT COMPLETLY.
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Bond commented on this article
Tuesday May 19, 2009 at 8:29 am
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Wednesday May 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm
NICE VID BOND!
;):P:D
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