FOTA teams to launch breakaway series
06-19-2009, 02:32 PM
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F1 threatens teams with lawsuit
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New indycars will be used for 2012. There are some good drivers in the Firestone Indy Lights series this year.
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IF the series split, then there are certainly many potential concerns. I don’t know anything really about the types of contracts that the FIA has with TV providers, circuits etc and how these may impact FOTA’s ability to put on a series. Also, although I do believe there are real governance issues in the current system, an organization run by the teams has its own share of conflicts and potential agency costs. CART’s history probably has some good lessons.
The whole CART/IRL saga may have import here. When the IRL was created, it was a joke compared to CART at the time in terms of where the good teams and drivers were. All that IRL had was the 500 and I really thought IRL would wither and die. What happened was that the IRL remained pretty low grade (IMO) and CART… well they withered… Now we have one unified open wheel series in America and it is a shadow of the early 90’s CART. The quality of drivers is much lower. Yeah, there are a few pretty good ones (Dixon, Briscoe, Kanan, Castro-Neves etc.) but most of the field would not have had a hope of driving in the old CART. The cars are spec basically and really not that interesting from a fan point of view. I would hate to see the two “F1” series go the same way… i.e. the two versions struggle in their own way, become more marginalized in the public eye over a number of years, and then finally re-unite a much weaker series than today.
Although there are many who share some of the blame here, it seems to me that Max has the most. I am growing to really dislike that guy.
The whole CART/IRL saga may have import here. When the IRL was created, it was a joke compared to CART at the time in terms of where the good teams and drivers were. All that IRL had was the 500 and I really thought IRL would wither and die. What happened was that the IRL remained pretty low grade (IMO) and CART… well they withered… Now we have one unified open wheel series in America and it is a shadow of the early 90’s CART. The quality of drivers is much lower. Yeah, there are a few pretty good ones (Dixon, Briscoe, Kanan, Castro-Neves etc.) but most of the field would not have had a hope of driving in the old CART. The cars are spec basically and really not that interesting from a fan point of view. I would hate to see the two “F1” series go the same way… i.e. the two versions struggle in their own way, become more marginalized in the public eye over a number of years, and then finally re-unite a much weaker series than today.
Although there are many who share some of the blame here, it seems to me that Max has the most. I am growing to really dislike that guy.
06-19-2009, 03:30 PM
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The last gasp of air from the king of elitist prissy whiny eurotrash assclowns, Max "I Love Me Some **** Hookers Because Daddy Was Hitler's Nuthugger" Mosley.
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06-19-2009, 03:39 PM
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This whole lawsuit business makes me think that there will be no hand shake at the end of all this. Mosley and Ecclestone have never backed down on anything, ever. And they are showing they are not about to now. This is really looking like the end of the series as we know it, since those two nut jobs are about to self destruct and take the whole organization with them.
06-19-2009, 03:54 PM
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This whole lawsuit business makes me think that there will be no hand shake at the end of all this. Mosley and Ecclestone have never backed down on anything, ever. And they are showing they are not about to now. This is really looking like the end of the series as we know it, since those two nut jobs are about to self destruct and take the whole organization with them.
Conversely there is no way the teams can get their $hit together in 6 months to formalize a competing formula. All is not lost, just Max. Bernie is like a cockaroach that will always find a way.
06-19-2009, 03:59 PM
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The EGO stench with those two is just overpowering.
I hope that the FOTA teams realize how large the market is in the US and North America and come back to Canada and America at least twice a season, maybe more.
I hope that the FOTA teams realize how large the market is in the US and North America and come back to Canada and America at least twice a season, maybe more.
06-19-2009, 04:19 PM
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06-19-2009, 04:58 PM
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Someone slip Max a Luger so he can go ventilate his overblown cranial cavity.
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06-19-2009, 06:32 PM
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