Ruh-Roh: Formula One Teams Association reportedly walks out of meeting with FIA
Well, folks, it looks like that elusive peace is slipping away yet again as the members of the Formula One Teams Association reportedly up and walked out of a meeting today with technical representatives from the FIA.
The meeting of the Technical Working Group was convened to iron out the details of the regulation changes for the near future, and included the ten current teams – of which eight are members of FOTA – as well as the three new teams joining the grid for next year. As of this writing, FOTA has yet to explain its specific reasons for the walkout. However, their exit indicates that the supposed deal between FOTA and the FIA is anything but finalized after Max Mosley (who reportedly agreed to stand down as FIA president as part of the deal) said he may yet run again – and Bernie Ecclestone continues to give the sport a black eye.
[Source: Autosport | Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty]
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arinze 5:34PM (7/08/2009)
OMG!!!! Grow Up FOTA!
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MaX PL 5:55PM (7/08/2009)
uh, more like F the FIA.
stealth 6:01PM (7/08/2009)
What? Bernie and Max are clearly the problem here. FIA administration has become senile and suffered a complete lack of judgement on how to manage this league. It would be a shame to see F1 break up due to the great history it has. However at the current rate of shenanigans that FIA is demonstrating if the FOTA must leave and create their own league so be it. I am for what ever it takes to bring the sport back to what it was.
jrhmobile 6:20PM (7/08/2009)
I pray FOTA finally tells the FIA to shove it, links up with an outside organization (FIM, for example, as they indicated they would do before the FIA floated their latest faux "compromise") for rules and race management and leaves Bernie and Max to twist in the wind.
David 11:09PM (7/08/2009)
Are you serious arinze????
FOTA need no issue any ultimatum nor explanation to FIA.
Just run the marcom plans for 2010 races and we'll watch with anticipation.
I don't speak for anyone else but myself, Mosley and Bernie's long overdue to be gone.
Level 5:51PM (7/08/2009)
they should leave F1 the hell with Mosley and start their own series as planned from the get go...
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Greg 6:25PM (7/08/2009)
And they should do it with a quickness!
Fox 10:00PM (7/08/2009)
Indeed, they need to grow a pair fast and get the hell away from Bernie and Max and the FIA...
HotRodzNKustoms 5:53PM (7/08/2009)
I don't know if I am the only one, but in a way I am hoping for FOTA to create their own series. I think it could be an opportunity for some truly new innovative design to come out of all the design.
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Brian 6:31PM (7/08/2009)
No I wish FOTA would bite the bullet and do it sooner rather than later before the sport dies.
william tell 5:59PM (7/08/2009)
Time for Fota to put their money where their mouths are. Create your own series of STFU and submit to the FIA.
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jjmcubed 6:07PM (7/08/2009)
http://www.planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5421588,00.html
That link explains what went on between the FIA and the FOTA.
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DiRF 6:05PM (7/08/2009)
This is completely off on a tangent, but that FOTA logo in the image friggin' rocks :D
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Jared 7:58PM (7/08/2009)
FOTA needs to give Bernie and Max an ultimatum: you're gone in 48 hours AND you issue videotaped apologies for being douchebags, or we create our own series.
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JMF 9:31PM (7/08/2009)
ENOUGH with the ultimatums, leopards don’t change their spots and Bernie & Max are just too stubborn, too senile and too power hungry to even try arguing common sense now.
2010 is coming - BE THE LEADERS YOU ARE AND START YOUR OWN SERIES ALREADY and get ANOTHER SANCTIONING BODY because you just know the FIA political book of hard ball will demand at least $50 million (pick your appropriate currency and exchange) for each race if can keep their hands or other appendage on any part of the new series.
I have a passion for every form of auto racing, but this circus is taking away from the competition and is getting too close to other ridiculous reality shows that I have absolutely NO desire to watch. I am not a fan of golf, but it would be less painful to get up at the same time as the Euro races and chase after a small dimpled white ball or watch the grass grow at the courses in my area than take another year of status quo.
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Mark K. 9:58PM (7/08/2009)
It's been years I wanted teams to go and do their championship as they please. I have zero doubts it will be better and more spectacular than current/future F1.
However, in the last couple of months, I think there is much more at the stake than better championship and right now I think it is an imperative they walk away from F1.
Big things always start with what was considered small, insignificant and unrelated events. Somehow I think that very public break with "business as usual" where as long as everybody "profits" all kinds of abuses are tolerated would very much benefit societies as well. Once the signal gets clear - "We really don't need YOU and on the top of that you really need US in order to even exist" maybe, just maybe (call me a stupid dreamer if you want) quite a few people will realize the same applies to Governments and their abuses of the citizens in favor of "business as usual" and "even if they treat me as a retarded child, I'll be making more money this way" so widespread in western democracies. Time to show them a finger or something more lethal than that, a right granted to the US citizens by II Amendment to the Constitution.
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why not the LS2LS7? 12:42AM (7/09/2009)
Good. I'm glad to hear FOTA understand that being associated with Bernie and Max isn't helping them. I know it won't be all roses trying to go it alone, in fact, I think it'll be quite difficult. But if they can do manage it, they should have a bright future. Sticking with Bernie and Max will just leave the sport in even worse shape in 5 years than it is right now.
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GlobalDIa 5:17PM (7/09/2009)
i really do hope FOTA goes all the way. somebody needs to tell bernie and max to go phuk themselves. its long overdue.
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hyundaifans.com 6:30PM (7/09/2009)
I just do not understand this cat and mouse game. FOTA just needs to do it once and for all! Just leave Bernie and Max and their 5 sub par teams to race in F1 next year. Either form your own series or at least stay away for a year and teach those 2 clowns a lesson.
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