bye bye f1.....

[Garry Spice]

so 8 teams have gone.....bye bye bernie!

[David Church]

This is gonna be interesting!!!!! handbags at dawn!!!!!!!!!!!!

[qatmix]

ULP!

[Hog]

United we stand. Divided we fall. Bye bye F1.


Now - for some real action - can we get banger racing back on TV like the good old days of World of Sport on ITV

[spud31]

But whos goona be dicky davis to present it lol.
Dave your old like me wasnt it always from Wimbledon stadium?

Rich

[DCM]

I hope this is Bye Bye Max Mosley to be honest, they can't expect companies to spend millions of pounds and have no say in the rules, at all.

[RickRick]

and take no share of the profits from tv and stuff

[Hairy Spider]

Let's face it, F1's been dying for some time. This could be just the kick in the 'rse it needs...

[Nick Goodall]

I think it will be the best thing to happen to the sport in years!

Let the Teams control the sport and come up with their own fresh ideas - it'll be awesome.

I think they've just proved a point to Max - he said they could survive without Ferrari but i'd like to see them try without Mclaren, Renault, Brawn, RedBull etc etc......

I think he'll either have to quit and back down or we're just going to see F1 replaced with effectively a new name and some different rules.

[bodgit]

Although it may herald a return to ferrari/McLaren dominating the sport again it would be worth it just to lose the morons who have been ruining F1 for so many years with stupid rules, trying to slow the cars down.
I hope we lose the stupid compulrory running a race on soft and hard tyre rule, the car should be run on its optimum set up. I would love to see the return of qualifying where each team got 12 laps to set a best time, was,nt it great to see the likes of schumaches/hill driving over the line in the dying seconds to set the fastest time.
Bernie will be no loss with his "you will do as I say attitude".
finally lets hope they drop donnington and stay with silverstone the home of F1

[telboy]

Thing is, If a breakaway F1 sets up, it'll probably end up on bloody sky sports, so we'll end up having to pay for it!

Richard brandson should take it over and give it ts own channel.

[bigred5765]

the 8 teams that have left are in the process of setting up there own series because they say max is holding up car/motor development,i say go for it.
http://www.football.virginmedia.com/...696156,00.html

[MotoRev]

I bet the BBC are pi##ed off!

They could be left with a right turkey having forked out to get F1 back. Gutted.

[xjr14]

Well, everyone blaming Max and Bernie should be very careful regarding the new series! Who says we get our beloved low-fuel-12-lap-qualy back as well as other stuff. Big automotive companies have ruined severall championchips in the past and present (BPR/FIA GT, WTCC, old DTM, new DTM (effectevly run by Audi and Merc, and it`s not good for the fan!!!)), and now they run their own series at this level that`s supposed to be working? I say NEVER! I would only be interested if the new rival series wasn`t a open-wheelers championchip, but some sort of le mans prototype sprint race championchip.

[xjr14]

...and, manufactures come and go as they like! Series must be based on teams that go racing for a living and not as a marketing-thing!!! Especially at this rather hard times.

[DCM]

FOTA have said, that they would make it cheaper and more accessible to the fans, to watch the event, so with that, I would assume that PPV channels would not get it, and it would either be on terrestrial or a free digital channel.

The BBC may well have a clause in the contract, that would allow a get out, if there was a SIGNIFICANT change in the event.

[Ant]

One thing that will be sure is that Max will do his upmost to ensure that none of the 8 teams win the championship this year.......or one will become a bigtime scapegoat!

[mikeyscott]

I want Ferrari, Mclaren to head to GT / endurance racing.

Goodbye Mosley and good ridence.

[Nick Goodall]

Originally Posted by mikeyscott

I want Ferrari, Mclaren to head to GT / endurance racing.

Goodbye Mosley and good ridence.

Why though? That's just like a boring tamed down version of F1.

F1 is the pinnacle of Motorsport, it would be a shame to lose in completely, i'd love to see a new form of F1 with less rules, big budgets and all the familiar teams / drivers.

[Welshy40]

About time to. To think this sport is where the development is supposed to happen on new car products, but down sizing and slowing these cars down defies logik. Heck I can go out and by a road car (for a huge amount of dosh) that will be quiker than an F1 car. Why??? These guys are paid huge amounts of money and its about time they went quicker, not slower. Bernie and spaz Mosley should leave now.