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Formula One: eight teams walk out of Nurburgring meeting

Thu, Jul 09 2009 10:14 CET byNick Iliev 1955 Views 3 Comments
Formula One: eight teams walk out of Nurburgring meeting

Max Mosley

The eight members of the Formula 1 Teams Association (Fota) boycotted a meeting with the FIA, on June 8. The latest episode of the F1 soap opera fiasco has produced inconsistent signals from the sports governing body, the FIA, regarding the sport's future, and the controversial financial cap, as well as Max Mosley's hotly debated long-term participation in the sport.

Consequently, the meeting at the Nürburgring race track in Germany, where Sunday's German grand prix will be staged, has left Formula One fans guessing again about Mosley's future intentions amid renewed speculation about a possible breakaway league next season, the BBC has reported.

According to the Guardian, with the technical directors of the Formula One Teams Association (Fota) walking out of a meeting with FIA representatives, a Fota spokesperson had said that, as a result, the sport's future was "once again in jeopardy".

Originally the negotiations at Nurburgring were set to discuss next year's rules and Fota's proposed changes to them, the controversial budget cap and the future of Mosley in the sport. Mosley, who initially said he was not going to run for re-election once his term was over, has committed a complete U-turn in the space of 24 hours, saying that "no one was going to kick him out of anywhere" and declaring his intention to remain in the sport.

And with the discussion progressively deteriorating at Nurburgring, eight Fota teams - Ferrari, McLaren, BMW Sauber, Renault, Toyota, Red Bull Racing, Toro Rosso and Brawn GP – decided that they had had enough of the proceedings.

The teams who came up with the breakaway scheme are also concerned that, the longer the negotiations are delayed, the less time they will have to actually mount up and organise a renegade championship of their own. The Fota teams left when told they had not entered the 2010 championship and therefore had no voting rights on technical and sporting regulations.

The official Fota statement read: "It will be remembered all eight active Fota members were included on the 'accepted' entry list as endorsed by the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) and communicated by the FIA press statement on 24 June," said Fota

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Anonymous Tony Sun, Jul 26 2009 20:34 CET
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EV revolution budy F1 makes things happen in your life and abt many 100 % of the companies are not based in the USA so no bail out money is going to them so get a life and know what your talking about ... F1 technology leads the way in the world. they try to make the cars as fast as possible with as little fuel as possible ... jesus some people are just so stupid they can believe them self.

Anonymous Isabelsue Thu, Jul 09 2009 18:20 CET
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The sooner Maz Mosely and his nazi bullying is gone the better. Bernie is just as bad, power crazed the pair and bad for the sport. I fear money will prevail and they will remain and reduce the enjoyment of fans

Anonymous autogyro Thu, Jul 09 2009 12:59 CET
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Fota was set up with the sole purpose of deposing Max and Bernie.
The big car manufacturers and the oil companies are behind it and they want to continue spending the publics bail out money to get an unfair advantage and ignore the EV revolution that is happening under their noses.
The naive fans may fall for this but the world public will not. If they get their way F1 is finished.

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