I just cany get my head around the childishness of it all. The FIA regulate the sport, the teams take part in the sport under the rules set out by the FIA. The FIA have asked them for their input on new rules and concord agreements for years, but the teams have done nothing about it, so the FIA, well within their rights, have said "right, well, we gave you a chance, you didnt bother, so we have changed the rules anyway"... and now all the teams seem to think they have a right to complain about the outcome?
The teams dont have a leg to stand on. They clearly would prefer to regulate their own series, and have definately got the power and money to do so... but they havent. Why? Becasue they arent stupid, they know that F1 as a sport holds all the best contracts, all the best circuits, and all the TV rights. The image and aura of F1 will mean that a rival series will struggle. They therefore cant make their own series, and instead are trying their hardest to make the FIA make F1 what they want it to be.
And the next time some 11 year old tool says to me "oh, but F1 full of loads of private teams will be crap" im going to smack them. F1 has had extended periods of grids made up primarily of private teams, and the racing was excellent, and it was done for the pasion of racing, not to promote big car maker brands... so no, it wont be crap, it will be different, and a kind of different young fans are to young to remember.
The whle situation reminds me of childrens playground games, where if someone cant get their own way they shout and storm off and refuse to play, before realising everyone else is having fun, and then comes back and pretends nothing ever happened.
