There's simply no limit to this fuck-heads stupidity. F1 has been suffering from poor management for the longest time IMO, this kunt is just making it worse. Don't know why it upsets me so much, maybe because i love the sport and have been watching it die a sloooooooow death
Max: Late entrants may find there's no space left
Monday 18th May 2009
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Max Mosley has warned the existing F1 teams that if they are late registering for next year's Championship they may found themselves without a place on the grid.
Any team wishing to take part in next year's Championship needs to submit their entry by May 29th, but given the on-going political crisis in Formula One, Mosley reckons some teams may hold back. And if they do, he's warned, they may find it too late.
"I think that we will probably get anywhere between three and six teams by the deadline, depending," Mosley told Autosport. "After that they become a late entry and if there is a space they can take it, and if there isn't space they cannot."
At present the teams, led by Ferrari, are fighting Mosley over his planned 2010 regulations, which will see the introduction of a budget cap and various technical freedoms being granted to those teams signing up. The existing teams, though, fear this could result in a two-tier Championship.
Already Ferrari have approached a French court asking for an injunction against the regulations but it remains to be seen whether this will be a step towards resolving the situation or compounding it. But given that time is a major factor in any decisions regarding 2010, Mosley believes an answer will emerge sooner rather than later.
"I'm not sure it will drag on that long, because if you put yourself in their position - they have to make up their minds what they want to do," the FIA President said.
"If they want to continue racing in F1, then they can come and talk. And if they want to go and do something else, then they have got to start making a car.
"If teams don't enter the F1 World Championship, they are going to have to decide pretty quickly what they do - start their own series, race in some other series or pack it in.
"And if they pack it in, they have got an even bigger problem than if they operate under a cost cap, as far as the personnel are concerned. It is not completely obvious what they would do.
"There is a good chance that when people sit and think about it, common sense will prevail because what is wrong with everybody being limited by the same amount of money, and the performance being limited by the cleverness of the engineers? It is very appealing to a lot of people that - and it is fair.
"And you could argue that if one team has got ten times as much money as another, then it is just the same as having a bigger engine. It is actually not very fair."
As for talk of a breakaway series, Mosley has made it clear that the FIA do not have any problems with that - although those breaking away might.
"Absolutely. We would have to do that, and we would do that. And if they did a breakaway, they could write their own rules and we would check them over for safety. And that would be it," he said.
"Then, they would go off and negotiate with promoters and television companies, who would no doubt charge them a great deal of money as they would be there for marketing purposes.
"And rumour has it, when they went to negotiate with the promoters they would find Bernie on the other side of the table! I don't know if there is anything in that, but it is just a suggestion..."
