With the demise of Ford from the Formula one series, Max Mosley is doing everything in his power to encourage the remaining teams to support the new regulations aimed at reducing costs in the sport. With time running out to implement the new changes, the FIA President has urged teams to act now before it’s too late.
“According to the Sporting Code, if we want radical change for 2006, we've got to announce it by October of this year and the letters only went out a few days ago,” he said recently.
Mosley also took the time to take a swipe at the engine manufactures in the sport, claiming that they are a big part of the reason that costs have spiralled out of control in the series. He claims that half of the enormous amounts of money they spend is on exotic materials and they can’t be relied upon for the future well being of the sport.
“ You cannot rely on the major manufacturers. If you do, you are dreaming. The manufacturers are going to realise that they are spending more money than can be justified to shareholders and, on that basis, one-by-one, they will stop racing,” he said. “It's absolutely inevitable. A 200 million Euro spend on an engine program is not justifiable or sustainable unless they were winning all the races.”
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