http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/60734
I like the extensive use of Wikipedia to make the judgement. I'm glad that they wouldn't be able to impart silly restrictions like there is on the term "Super Bowl" here, but to say that anyone can hold an F1 race is silly. I hope that article was just misleading and that the key considerations were to allow the broader, unrestricted usage of "F1" rather than to allow anyone and everyone to hold "F1" races. Maybe I'll start a new series to be called "E1" which will be drifting ("D1 Grand Prix") but it has to be done with a retired professional open wheel race car (for instance, from "F1")!
"However, if private owners of F1 cars race them on a friendly basis is that not an F1 race, if not on a commercial basis?" No, that's not an F1 race. That's a bunch of dudes racing old F1 cars.
NASCAR applied decades ago...Bill France and his good ole' boys ain't stupid... it seems F1 waited too long...Bernie needs better lawyers...
Didn't McL make a road car a few years back and call it the "F1"? Maybe the FIA could force them to do a recall...?
...or even charge 1 pound for every keyboard fabricated with the F1 key?... just like when a guy tried to pattent the "double click" sound...
Does anyone follow A1GP at all? The series that Sheikh Maktoum started a few years ago where the cars are all the same and the cars represent countries instead of constructors.
