Max Mosley has told the world that instead of reaching a compromise with the nine FOTA teams, he thinks they should leave F1:
I say to them: If you want to draw up your own rules, then you can organise your own championship. But we have the Formula 1 championship. We draw up the rules for that. We have been doing that for 60 years and we will continue doing so.
It is difficult to believe that the president of the FIA could seriously be advocating a situation where the governing body’s most successful and popular championship is split into two.
Mario Theissen claims it was Mosley’s suggestion that FOTA place a ‘conditional’ entry to the 2010 championship, which they did last week.
But by agitating for a split Mosley has played into FOTA’s hands. Their argument that the governance of Formula 1 needs reforming has never looked more credible than when Mosley admitted he would rather see F1 split in two than accept that he might not get everything he wants from this debate… Details