That says it all. We would neither have the new teams nor would we have Williams or Sauber on the grid without Max Mosley's work. F1 would be down to seven teams!Williams' CEO Adam Parr wrote: Whatever you say about Max, the only possibility of an independent Formula One team existing is because of what he did.
Note that he talks in singular, "Formula One team" he says. We also know that his team received some support from Bernie. We also know that he runs Cosworth this year and intends to go somewhere else next year.WhiteBlue wrote:Max has saved F1 from being ruined by the moron who calls himself the horse whisperer and his acolytes like Howett. Adam Parr is well placed to make a call on that. He took it on to negotiate the RRA between the FOTA teams and he ran Williams to the budget that was possible due to the cuts.
I know enough English to know that "an independant Formula One team" means any independent team in this context. Btw there was no other private team in 2009 any more that wasn't sponsored by a billionaire brand. The fact that Bernie helped Williams makes the statement even more true. All the other private teams had been crushed by the mad spending race of the manufacturers. The crisis had been brewing so long that only the most exemplary measures could save the series from the megalomaniacs in Maranello, Cologne and Enstone. Howett, Briatore and Montezemolo should be out of F1 for the good of the sport. Monte is long overdue IMO.timbo wrote:Note that he talks in singular, "Formula One team" he says. We also know that his team received some support from Bernie. We also know that he runs Cosworth this year and intends to go somewhere else next year.WhiteBlue wrote:Max has saved F1 from being ruined by the moron who calls himself the horse whisperer and his acolytes like Howett. Adam Parr is well placed to make a call on that. He took it on to negotiate the RRA between the FOTA teams and he ran Williams to the budget that was possible due to the cuts.
There easily can be another meaning in what he says
I wasn't citing Max. I was citing Adam Parr. And the issue is not Max being contra Ferrari. The issue is the resource restriction agreement and the admission of new teams versus the uninhibited spending of rich teams and the use of third, fourth and fifth cars. Ferrari's president personified that mad policy and needs to be fought every corner until F1 gets into decent shape again.JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:This all very well, but why is Max putting all this out now?
Three or four chassis suppliers are not a decent competition for a world series. F1 is an up and down. It needs the small teams to provide their own fights in their arena. Small teams can become big teams if the budgetary policies are right.JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:What is wrong with 3 or 4 chassis Suppliers?
Williams are a name synonmous with F1, but if they cannot make ends meet they should sell up and F off.
Dave Richards wrote:Formula One's fundamental ethos is about success coming to those with the most ingenious engineering and best organization, not to those with the biggest budget.
Ok or has a really bad hangover... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motors ... mentw.htmlJohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:FOTA have a gentlemens agreement(no signatures) for the resource restriction. But its very vague and how on earth is it enforceable?
Sorry to destroy your illusions. The RRA is a legally enforceable contract. It was designed that way. Even more important the 2009-2012 Concord Agreement would have never been signed unless it was legally binding.Adam Parr wrote:The agreement between the teams to restrict costs must be legally enforceable. There is a clear precedent on this with aerodynamic restrictions, factory shutdown restrictions, testing restrictions, gearbox restrictions... we must now work out how the Resource Restriction Agreement would look. It needs to be done reasonably quickly - especially for the sake of the new teams but also for a company like Williams.
You can take it to the bank that all teams are bound to it unless they agree to change it! Daimler AG, McLaren Group, Aabar and a bunch of other huge corporations made massive financial decisions based on that contract. It will shape the reality of F1 in the coming years.Official FiA Announcement wrote:In addition, as agreed in Paris on 24 June 2009, the Teams have entered into a resource restriction agreement, which aims to return expenditure to the levels that prevailed in the early 1990s.
