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JayVee, rest assured, Renault are in my top three favourite teams.

apology gracefully and gratefully accepted. I certainly am not anti Renault, or any other team. Certain driver or two perhaps, but without the teams there is no F1.
Have a look at the turbo era for Renaults definition of grenades. I have vivid memories of the Renault rocketships detonating when leading on more than one occasion, in fact I seem to remember a 1-2 detonation when both cars were only a few laps from home.

Mad Max has opened his mouth again..saying manufacturers should not receive any money from the tv revenues...
Now this will surely piss off Sexy Bernie who i believe almost got all the teams to sign the concorde agreement beyond 2007

Max Mosley has indicated that he will be forcing the manufacturers teams to make a choice, whether to sign an extended Concorde agreement or be left out.

Mosley is planning to request this at the next World Motorsport Council on the 22nd of March. He is reported to want entries open for just 10 days immediately following that meeting.

Mosely said:

It makes sense to open entries soon and then to close them again quickly. Then we can discuss refinements to the regulations before the deadline of the end of June.
It would not surprise me to see some defections next month when we open the entries.
I have got a real determination to see this through. I honestly believe that if F1 is to prosper then we have got to get the costs down so that the independent teams can survive.

There will be provision in the rules saying we could accept a late entry but you can only do that if there is a vacancy.
We are going to stick to 12 teams because of safety. There are six already in. There are three, possibly four, talking about entering and there are five GPMA teams.

The six teams already in are Ferrari, MF1 Racing, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Williams and the new Super Aguri.

There is a whisper that a cashed up Ron Denis may buy back the Mercedes shares in McLaren. This would free McLaren of manufacturer obligations to join a break away group

I wonder if Max actually wants the remaining teams to join, or wants to lock them out. Imagine how much that would help Ferrari - knocking out 3 of Ferrari's closest rivals.

BlinkyBill wrote:I wonder if Max actually wants the remaining teams to join, or wants to lock them out. Imagine how much that would help Ferrari - knocking out 3 of Ferrari's closest rivals.

Not sure what Max wants, but I'm pretty sure what he doesnt want (like the rest of us, or at least me) is the manufacturers running F1. That would be dracula in charge of the blood bank, or perhaps more like a commitee of dracula's in charge of the blood bank.

Redhead wrote:

BlinkyBill wrote:I wonder if Max actually wants the remaining teams to join, or wants to lock them out. Imagine how much that would help Ferrari - knocking out 3 of Ferrari's closest rivals.

Not sure what Max wants, but I'm pretty sure what he doesnt want (like the rest of us, or at least me) is the manufacturers running F1. That would be dracula in charge of the blood bank, or perhaps more like a commitee of dracula's in charge of the blood bank.

G'day

Looks like Super Aguri will be signing the concord. The agreement, not the plane.

I wonder if this is a way for honda to have a choice of both options.

In Mad Max we trust

He increases the car weight to save costs and now he wants to drop the car weight to save cost

He dumps the V10 engines for V8 engines then proposes rev limiting the V8 engines. Why not rev limit the V10 and save massive amounts of money.

He forced grooved tyres and now he wants to bring back slicks

He wants to allow only a limited number of changes to the cars during the season so the teams are forced to build 2 or 3 new cars every year.

He is worried about teams leaving due to increased costs but doesn't want to allow more than 12 teams due to safety reasons

Sure, Mad Max is worried about the costs

He has an agenda and if he gets away with it, he will destroy the sport.

Getr rid of him before he gets rid of Formula 1

I concur

Formula 1 is getting exciting again but he just wants to keep meddling

He managed to get Michelin to leave and in a few years we'll have a single engine supplier (most likely Ferrari)

I am so so

Easy tiger, he is a politician. He can't help it. If it makes you feel any better, his father is one of the most infamous Britons of last century and the reason he could not get into real politics.

It's just jealousy. Most of his mates are busy ruining an entire country, he just gets to ruin F1.

rah wrote:Easy tiger, he is a politician. He can't help it. If it makes you feel any better, his father is one of the most infamous Britons of last century and the reason he could not get into real politics.

It's just jealousy. Most of his mates are busy ruining an entire country, he just gets to ruin F1.

I concur

If you want to save costs, you could do it by banning Sato - but oh the randomness that brings the sport.

And what would we talk about all day long if it wasnt for Max. . . at least it helps as endure the wait for Bahrain.