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Ferrari, Renault, BMW and Mercedes will leave F1

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Dream Team

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FORMULA ONE FACES RIVAL TOUR THREAT
Wednesday 27th October 2004

After the battle of the British Grand Prix, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone faces a fresh challenge to his motor racing empire with a rival series in the pipeline.

Formula One giants Ferrari, Renault, BMW and Mercedes, under the umnbrella of GPWC holdings, are reported to be unhappy with the current division of commercial rights in their sport.

As a result they have employed specialist consultants to "start building immediately the operational and commercial structure for a new open-wheel motor racing series, to begin no later than 2008".

The teams are currently bound to an agreement that keeps them in Formula One until 2007, but unless the teams fell the spoils of the sport are shared more venly in the future, a rival tour could become reality.

GPWC chairman Juergen Hubbert, in a statement, said: "We have been more than patient with the current management and governance of Formula One.

"But recent developments have underlined the need for a structure that guarantees a stable and prosperous future of the sport."

-> http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,13-1157155,00.html


Could this mean the end of the F1?
 
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Virgo

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not gonna happen, that's just a way to pressure the F1 management, much like the European Football League featuring the most important clubs in the world was just a way to pressure UEFA.
 
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Áļéאָ

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well the previous time the same teams made this same threat, it worked. And it will now too. if it doesnt, they will just have to make that new series, and im prety sure toyota will follow too if this happens
 
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rpvankasteren

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F1 will be annihilated, but I'm not sure Ecclestone would be very unhappy about that. He's getting old, and has all the cash he'll ever need. He might just decide to retire after 2007, and hand F1 over to GPWC and iSe AG at that time.
 
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Áļéאָ

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getting old? :rolleyes: He IS old. And he is the wrose man that could be in charge of the sport rite now. He led F1 here with his decisions. It's not ferraris fault that they keep winning, and it's not their fault that there is no spectacle, no good overtaking moves not very close racing with good batles between the drivers...
 
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Áļéאָ

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why not. F1 can only get worse. In the end, it could turn out to be a much better compatition (and the way things are now in F1 after the bad management the last 10 years it's not that hard)
 
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Lonestarr022

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what cars would there be to drive in F1 if the y all go?


cant see them driving GMs and Fords, and Izuzus, um do they dirve thsoe in F1?
 
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