Breaking news: FOTA to form breakaway F1 Championship!

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Thought this deserved a thread of it's own.

Breaking news on Radio five that talks have broken down and FOTA has announced it's teams will form a breakaway F1 championship next season.

Massive news if this goes all the way, still can't see how this can work, Mad Max and Bernies version of F1 will die straight away if all the big teams disappear even they couldn't be this stupid.........could they??

God knows what happens to the BBC's F1 deal also!
 
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I still can' see them breaking away. It's just another move in a game of chess, where no one wins and they'll both make compromises.
 
it wont happen
there problem will be finding track to race on or should i say good safe upto date tracks.
the tracks that hold F1 races now wont be able to run them as there contracted to the FIA and tracks that want to run a F1 races in the future wouldnt want to upset the FIA
so that just leaves substandard tracks that arent safe for F1 cars
 
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Surely they simply have to time the races on different dates? It's not like they have to be exclusively used in F1.
 
There's surely too much money involved for this to go all the way. I'd imagine hundreds of millions of pounds of sponsorship and TV deals would go up in smoke if the product changed from Ferrari, McClaren, BMW, Brawn to Force India, Lola, Campos, USGP and Manor overnight!

Imagine being Donnington as well spending a kings ransom to redevelop your track only to host the Mickey Mouse British GP they'd be gutted :p

Some ways I'd love it to happen though, no poison Dwarf and no Mad Max meddling, maybe get back racing in countries where they give a monkeys about the sport rather than who lines Bernes pockets with the most silver.
 
It's the TV coverage that concerns me because I certainly wont bother watching the FIA F1 anymore and the FOTA GP will likely just be broadcast on sky unless ITV pick it up. I guess that could work, be a bit gutting for the BBC though.
 
ghost101 said:
Surely they simply have to time the races on different dates? It's not like they have to be exclusively used in F1.
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its not that simple, the tracks have contracts with FIA to run there race
they will be told, you run there race and you will lose ours for good

motoGP tried this in 1979 and it didnt get off the ground because they couldnt get tracks to hold there races because they were told if you do you will lose the right to the FIM race. that scared off all the track owners and the break away championship failed before it even held a race
 
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ShakenNstirred said:
it wont happen
there problem will be finding track to race on or should i say good safe upto date tracks.
the tracks that hold F1 races now wont be able to run them as there contracted to the FIA and tracks that want to run a F1 races in the future wouldnt want to upset the FIA
so that just leaves substandard tracks that arent safe for F1 cars
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Thats not a problem. F1 is perfectly safe at many of the circuits used for other events.

How would Silverstone or Monaco not be as safe next year? ;)

Pretty much any of the GT class circuits would do for FOTAGPWCF1
 
ShakenNstirred said:
its not that simple, the tracks have contracts with FIA to run there race
they will be told, you run there race and you will lose ours for good

motoGP tried this in 1979 and it didnt get off the ground because they couldnt get tracks to hold there races because they were told if you do you will lose the right to the FIM race. that scared off all the track owners and the break away championship failed before it even held a race
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Most tracks would rather have the FOTA breakaway though wouldn't they, who do you want to have racing on your tracks the likes of Ferrari, McLaren etc with the best drivers or whatever remains of F1 after they all leave.
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
FOTA GP race at Paul Ricard:eek:

:p
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Bernie will be using the name Formula 1 as he owns it, Max will have to call his series something completely different. ;)

I do in all seriousness wonder why Bernie has been so quiet lately, maybe he's just dealt the fatal blow to Max and given FOTA the tracks/TV coverage. I could be completely wrong though. :p
 
ShakenNstirred said:
its not that simple, the tracks have contracts with FIA to run there race
they will be told, you run there race and you will lose ours for good

motoGP tried this in 1979 and it didnt get off the ground because they couldnt get tracks to hold there races because they were told if you do you will lose the right to the FIM race. that scared off all the track owners and the break away championship failed before it even held a race
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Interview with David Croft on BBC Website says that FOTA had a list of tracks at the meeting that they CAN go to, so finding tracks to race on is not going to be a problem.
 
A few track ideas:

Zolder
Zandvoort
Estoril
Road America
Laguna Seca
Monaco
Montreal
Adelaide
Indianapolis
Silverstone
Magny-cours
Paul Ricard
Portimao
San Luis
Hockenheim
Nurburgring
Jerez
Valencia

Off the top of my head anyway...
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
Interview with David Croft on BBC Website says that FOTA had a list of tracks at the meeting that they CAN go to, so finding tracks to race on is not going to be a problem.
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Plus if they were to use the MotoGP guy as the promoter he could just add FOTA GP to the MotoGP calendar and have the FOTA GP races after the MotoGP races - and see if he can extend the TV deals with those companies to cover FOTA GP as well - at least for a year or two until everything can be sorted for it to stand on its own
 
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