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**Si8jy8HN** · 12-10-2008, 02:13 AM

I think that this is a shame, but really Max has been backed into a corner and there needs to be drastic cuts in costs if more teams aren't to pull out imminently.

I don't see this as the FIA as being backed into a corner at all. Their responsibility is to police the sport in terms of the regulations, not tell teams, or more particularly manufacturers, what they can and cannot spend on F1. The many changes in regulations have, as has already been pointed out, increased costs, not reduced them and manufacturers have always come and gone from F1 regardless of what the governing body do.

The FIA is acting like the proverbial bull in a china shop at the moment, and it is likely that the current President won't be around to clear up the mess, but at best he's being seen to do something which may earn him brownie points in the short term.

12-10-2008, 02:13 AM	#14
Si8jy8HN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	I think that this is a shame, but really Max has been backed into a corner and there needs to be drastic cuts in costs if more teams aren't to pull out imminently. I don't see this as the FIA as being backed into a corner at all. Their responsibility is to police the sport in terms of the regulations, not tell teams, or more particularly manufacturers, what they can and cannot spend on F1. The many changes in regulations have, as has already been pointed out, *increased* costs, not reduced them and manufacturers have always come and gone from F1 regardless of what the governing body do. The FIA is acting like the proverbial bull in a china shop at the moment, and it is likely that the current President won't be around to clear up the mess, but at best he's being seen to do something which may earn him brownie points in the short term.
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