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[Jordan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 052848.stm

But he still wants budget caps

discuss.

[Jensonb]

Mhm. Bernie said the same to the Beeb earlier.

Wonderful news.

[EwanM]

Mhm. Bernie said the same to the Beeb earlier.

Wonderful news.

Formula One is dead... Long live Formula One!

[Gilles 27]

Alright so how's he gonna get the budget cap around the Ferrari veto/contract thingy?
Presumably, it's gonna have to be quite a large budget initially to appease Ferrari and the others (but mainly Ferrari)
Good news on the 2-tier system though

[Chris_0648]

I watched that interview. I thought he spoke quite a bit of sense actually. Perhaps too eager to swap old teams for new teams but that could just be public posturing.

Interesting about John Howett walking out and no-one following him.

Something I've oftened wondered is why the manufactuers hate the budget cap so much... surely by restricting F1 budget to £40mil you open up millions of more pounds for them to divert into manufacturer dominated motorsports like GT, Le Mans and Touring Cars, where manufacturers traditionally win to sell.

[Jensonb]

I watched that interview. I thought he spoke quite a bit of sense actually. Perhaps too eager to swap old teams for new teams but that could just be public posturing.

Interesting about John Howett walking out and no-one following him.

Something I've oftened wondered is why the manufactuers hate the budget cap so much... surely by restricting F1 budget to £40mil you open up millions of more pounds for them to divert into manufacturer dominated motorsports like GT, Le Mans and Touring Cars, where manufacturers traditionally win to sell.

I think they just don't like being told what to do or something - which I find odd, because they themselves were in favour of restricting use of certain resources.

Let's hope the new Regulations are closer to the Uncapped than the Capped Regulations under the cancelled 2-Tier system. The additional technical freedoms of uncapped were (A few) good ideas. Some of them were completely cockamamie.

[welshie]

Like him or not . . . there is some sense there

[scotty]

For me, one of these two things will happen:

- The rules for the uncapped cars will be relaxed to keep some semblance of competition and balance (or vice versa - ie the capped cars won't have quite so much freedom)

- The budget will be increased, at least temporarily....

[EwanM]

Mosley makes so many good points in that interview, I have to hand it to him. Savvy.

Interesting to see that Howett wanted the teams to all walk out, but none of them would. I thought Flavio would have been the one.

[Rivelution]

Finally some good news...

[Jensonb]

- The rules for the uncapped cars will be relaxed to keep some semblance of competition and balance (or vice versa - ie the capped cars won't have quite so much freedom)

There will be no uncapped cars, F1 2010 is a Capped Formula at this stage.

[billindenver]

Mosley should be worried about lowering the COST of Formula one..instead of the CAP. Constant rule changes and ignorant management decisions makes F1 expensive...not the teams desire to spend more. Stop changing the rules every other year so the teams can build a car and KEEP it...and the cost of F1 would drop by half.

[cap-dude]

Yeah for common sense.

Max did indeed come across well, but I still question his decisions as to why the 2 tier thing ever came into existence. But this is good news and all seems calm. FOTA will go off, try to come up with a better solution and hopefully... Oh wait, problem. Hmm, something tells me that the FIA will reject FOTA's ideas and were off on another argument.

Well at least we can get back to racing for a while.

[Gilles 27]

Rather than a budget cap, could they not make the teams sell their cars to whoever wanted them at the end of each season for a maximum cost of say 2 million Euros a unit? That way, no one would be able to dominate for years, it would close up the grid. Any technical innovations would be made available to other teams for next season so they wouldn't fall too far behind while the advantage of coming up with something first would be retained as the cars would only be sold at the end of the season.

The cost to new teams would be reduced as they wouldn't have to invest millions in their own research, they could get a decent starting point. The leading teams would also spend less because there would be no point in spending huge amounts just to get an advantage for one season and then immediately give it away. There would be an incentive to succeed though as the team that came up with the best car could get some of the money invested in it straight back as other teams scrambled to buy it at the end of the season.

???

[welshie]

There is a difference between buying a winning car and understanding the details of how it works.