Mosley and Eccs to start their war in earnest
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F1 Live suggest that this week’s meting of the FIA’s MSC will see Mosley’s much expected counterattack:
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/080622164617.shtml
They reckon that a crude appeal to the pockets of the teams will be his tactic.
At the moment Eccs pays them 75 % of promotional fees and 50 percent of the TV money. They suggest MRM will promise 92 and 75 respectively.
The usual suspects are on side with MRM: Ferrari naturally, as well as Williams. Red Bull, or should that be lap dog, will of course follow where their strings lead.
MRM reportedly suggested to Williams that they should have appealed their penalty for the collision at Canada. So despite a McLaren driver doing the precise same thing, it was only FW whom he approached.
The implications of such things are much too subtle for me.
It’s rather like world war one with Germany and the allies fighting a war over the corpse of northern France. Whoever won, France lost. And I can’t help feeling the same way about F1.
Do you think either has a concern for what they are doing to our sport? The question I'd like to ask MRM is: have you ever met an F1 fan?
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/080622164617.shtml
They reckon that a crude appeal to the pockets of the teams will be his tactic.
At the moment Eccs pays them 75 % of promotional fees and 50 percent of the TV money. They suggest MRM will promise 92 and 75 respectively.
The usual suspects are on side with MRM: Ferrari naturally, as well as Williams. Red Bull, or should that be lap dog, will of course follow where their strings lead.
MRM reportedly suggested to Williams that they should have appealed their penalty for the collision at Canada. So despite a McLaren driver doing the precise same thing, it was only FW whom he approached.
The implications of such things are much too subtle for me.
It’s rather like world war one with Germany and the allies fighting a war over the corpse of northern France. Whoever won, France lost. And I can’t help feeling the same way about F1.
Do you think either has a concern for what they are doing to our sport? The question I'd like to ask MRM is: have you ever met an F1 fan?
A bit of an odd one.
Just as FOM (Bernie, etc) and the teams are (almost) inescapably lumbered with the residents of the Paris bunker, so too do the Bunkerites have formal, binding obligations to FOM. Presumably the boys at CVC read the 100-year contract between FOM and the FIA before they forked over a couple of very large-denomination bills in order to gain control.
This raises the question of how much power - posturing and playing-to-the-jury aside - the FIA really has to lay down commercial terms that the teams and FOM should accept.
One of the key proscriptions of the EU Competitions Commission settlement was that the FIA may not have anything to do with commercial aspects of racing. Its remit is confined to regulation.
What will be the Head Mole's justification of his blatant intrusion into the commercial side - that the FIA is only attempting to "regulate" the sport's finances?
They're excuse for poking their noses in will be to "ensure that the teams get more money from their sport".
I can see the FIA's point in this, they want to ensure that more revenue gets to the teams, thus bolstering up their finances so they remain in the game.
With the 92/75% structure that the FIA propose for the new Concorde Agreement, teams like Super Aguri would have been able to carry on. It would make the teams more valuable, and less of a drain on sponsor's (manufacturers), creating a more healthy grid.
However, the EU ruling does clearly state that the FIA have nothing to do with the commercial side of the business, which is FOM's domain.
I'm sure that the bolt will point that out to sMax in a skilfully crafted letter to the press very soon.
I can see the FIA's point in this, they want to ensure that more revenue gets to the teams, thus bolstering up their finances so they remain in the game.
With the 92/75% structure that the FIA propose for the new Concorde Agreement, teams like Super Aguri would have been able to carry on. It would make the teams more valuable, and less of a drain on sponsor's (manufacturers), creating a more healthy grid.
However, the EU ruling does clearly state that the FIA have nothing to do with the commercial side of the business, which is FOM's domain.
I'm sure that the bolt will point that out to sMax in a skilfully crafted letter to the press very soon.
thunderbelmont said:
the EU ruling does clearly state that the FIA have nothing to do with the commercial side of the business
(My bold)I'm not so sure about that - remember, this is Mosley we're talking about.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?refe...
Mosley is very good at finding a devil in the detail, and the meaning of the words/phrases will be very easy to twist as necessary to suit his agenda. One would expect nothing less from him.
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