Max willing to compromise as €100m cap looms

If true, a predictable outcome unfortunately.

 

+1

Emphasis on the "unfortunately".

 

Well 100 million euro does sound more reasonable, thats if Max is still excluding engine development, marketing and driver salaries. I am sure thats at least another 50-60 million euro which total comes out pretty close to what the manufacturers are spending today.

 

Agreed. BE's big prize is locking them in again with another Concorde. Seems like the teams are playing into their hands. BE is quietly setting the trap and so far it seems to be working. Either way he continues to win as long as things are being held together.

 

Don't write FOTA off yet. They're not looking to get rid of Bernie. He's made them all very rich and they're not going to kill the golden goose.
What they want is a bigger piece of the pie. What they've shown Mr. E. by standing up to Max is that they're unified and will have to be taken more seriously when the FOM/FOTA negotiations start.

 

This is all silly. How the hell is anyone going to be able to check what a team actually spends?

 

by asking them?

you seem to be assuming teams will kick out auditors like WMD inspectors, when in actuality teams will open their books. sure there might be some cheating but it will be minimized.

 

I think they can get a general idea about it but how can they tell if you go a million or two over. More of a political statement regarding the present economy in my opinion.

 

this could be achieved by a stipulated audit which would also accomplish nothing.........

I think this entire mess is much to do about nothing and in the morning we'll find all the teams have submitted their entries for the 2010 season.... back to business as usual and Formula 1 is ever closer to becoming a spec series....

talk of a fine for submission after the deadline could occur if say for instance Ferrari and/or others don't submit tomorrow but that fine can be little or big - who knows what the amount per day for non-compliance would be ...

My hope for Ferrari going back to real racing in sports cars is diminishing, sure wish I was wrong.

Carol