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The World Motor Sport Council is due to meet tomorrow with the current crisis in Formula One top of the agenda, however it is now highly suspected that FIA President Max Mosley’s future may also come under the hammer with the teams making it clearly known that they believe the current President is making the current situation personal, displaying erratic and questionable behaviour.
Mosley was quoted as calling some members of FOTA ‘loonies’ over the Silverstone weekend as well as claiming that Renault boss Flavio Briatore was looking to oust Bernie Ecclestone as head of F1, to which Briatore hinted at the Presidents own recent turmoil....
"Max is going personal all the time. I'm too much of a gentleman to go personal. If he wants to go personal, I have a lot to say about Max. He needs to stop insulting people. I don't want to personally describe what Max is because in his private life we have already had a demonstration of what he was in the News of the World,” Briatore was quoted as saying in the Guardian.
"If he is talking about lunatics and stuff like that, he needs to watch himself, to just do the best job possible for him, the teams and not go personal, insulting me and the people from FOTA. It's enough. If there is somebody who needs to be very quiet in their personal life, it's him because for sure he is not a [good] example, to be president with what he has in his personal life. He needs to stop making it personal all the time."
Even though Mosley has revealed that the FIA will not be taking the threatened legal action against FOTA for threatening a breakaway championship, it is still highly evident that it will take nothing short of Mosley’s resignation from his role as FIA’s top man to smooth the waters so that talks can continue.
"We have tried to compromise [with Mosley], we have opened the door, tried everything, but we have had the door closed in our face," added Briatore. "We have tried to make sure we race as Formula One teams in a formula with one rule but this has not been possible and this is the reason why we are not negotiating any more with anybody."
FOTA is already making plans for their new championship with negotiations underway for TV deals and a 2010 calendar in the drafting process. |