The meeting between Mosley and Montezemolo is over. Peace has been made apparently. Just read it on an Italian website. FIA and FOTA have found an agreement on the 2010 rules.
I'm confused....the second paragraph says an agreement has NOT been found??? But it also says that he will NOT stand for re-election which is brilliant!
hmm...I just noticed that. It might be a typing error. According to Italian websites the basis of this "agreement" is that the 2009 rules will be maintained for 2010 and Mosley won't run for re-election.
Ok good news and bad at the same time. MAX is gone .........hooray!!! I do hope now they will get the calendar straight with more races in places that have been neglected. That must be done and tickets need to be cheaper. Indy, Montreal need to come back and a race in France or Portugal etc. FOTA now need to exert control over Bernie and the business, or at least get him on board with better races, adding needed venues and less expensive tickets. You know getting back in touch with fans as they all blathered about during this political fiasco. If they dont then they are as worthless as Bernie or Max. We the racing fan/public backed them, they used that support to get Max out. Now they need to pay us back with exactly the things they said the sport needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So far it is just Max saying that the war is over. I've heard nothing from FOTA so far. I'll be watching the news sites with interest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8116756.stm
I am disappointed in this as it's business as usual, I was very much hoping for a new slate, new show, lower prices, less bs and more. If there was really going to be a breakaway series, there would have been no talks in Paris. Next year at this time no one will know what the hell happened on this date. This further solidifies my interest in sportscars in the various series. F1 with it's new teams offers me nothing, second rate teams on a grid are a joke. It seems apparent that the us team has been courting the BeMax show all along with their announcement now of using Paul Ricard as a base....more money for Bernie. My monetary support for racing will remain with LMS, LeMans, European GT3, NOT F1. Do I matter in the overall scheme of things in this, hell no, but there will be two fewer people attending or supporting them and their revamped circus. Carol
Yes lets hope that doesnt happen at all. I have my cynical side in agreement with you of course. Time will tell if FOTA move in the direction of the fans and true racing again.
In that we don't know all the details yet it's too early to say anything for sure but this looks to be the best solution. The teams were willing to break away only as a last resort. None of them wanted to get into the business of organizing and policing a new series. The FIA didn't want to lose their "Crown Jewel" and Bernie didn't want to lose the money. If the team's can increase their say in how the sport is run and get a bigger cut from Bernie the sport should be healthy. We will have to wait and see. When the baseball strike ended the teams and players went on a fan appreciation campaign. Let's hope F1 does the same.
FIA president Max Mosley has said he will not stand for re-election after claiming an agreement has been reached with Formula 1 teams to avoid a breakaway series. According to sources, Mosley, F1 rights holder Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One Teams' Association [FOTA] chairman Luca di Montezemolo held a series of meetings overnight and into this morning, prior to today's World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris, aimed at resolving the crisis. As part of the deal, Mosley has agreed not to stand again as president of the governing body, despite earlier this week stating that he felt compelled to do so as long as the threat of a breakaway championship remained. AUTOSPORT understands that as part of the agreement the teams must call off the breakaway series and sign up to a new Concorde Agreement until 2012. "There will be no split," said Mosley. "We have agreed to a reduction of costs. There will be one F1 championship but the objective is to get back to the spending levels of the early 1990s within two years." The FIA is expected to announce the official entry list for the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship later this afternoon.
Of course they found an agreement. It's been going that direction all along. Like I said some days ago. The pirate series will never happen.
Let's hope this is the end of it. Personally I feel a bit used and have a strange desire for a cigarette
If Max is right about what happened (this time) the Eastern Hemisphere Formula 1 Championship continues.
All I have to say is... Boo I was hope for a chance to see real F1 racing again like in the hey days instead of a spec serious. One disappointed fan… Jim
I have a suspicion that is all a bunch of spin on the cost item mentioned. The "objective". Yes its an objective to which the teams revolted severely. They will police themselves of course. Hardly the case. Max is out of the way for now. The real work and fallout have begun. I am of the mind that FOTA need to take charge and make sure the fan base is taken care of, as much as FOTA is taken care of. We shall see. More like the financial crisis around the world, hardly little the bankers have suffered.
So FOTA wins!!...as expected because they would have won either way. The breakaway was going to happen as long as Max was still in F1 which would have created a far better series than the old F1...FOTA and the fans win. Instead, FOTA stood their ground and forced MAX out which will create a better F1....FOTA and the fans win again! A great day for F1 buuuut.........I'll celebrate as soon as I see a statement from FOTA.
Anyone heard from Kraftwerk? I'm a bit worried about his emotional state given the news Let's hope an intervention isn't required.
