Blame It On Bernie
Posted by Shinnbob
'The FIA believed it was acting with the full support of the teams when it introduced a new 'winner-takes-all' points system ahead the new Formula 1 season, according to its president Max Mosley.
The sport's governing body announced yesterday that it was prepared to defer the new system until 2010 if the teams were unhappy about it.
This was in response to a statement from the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) on Friday questioning the validity of the rule change.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph: "Bernie [Ecclestone, F1's commercial rights holder] told me that he talked to all the teams and everybody was happy.
"I was led to believe they all agreed. The World Council was under the impression that they had all agreed."
FOTA believes that the new rules, which will see the world championship handed to the driver with the most wins during the season, could not be changed at this late stage without unanimous support of the teams.
In light of complaints from leading figures, the FIA has now said that if the teams are unhappy then the introduction of the wins systems will be delayed until 2010.'
Taken from Autosport
Made me chuckle, what a farce, and according to Mosely its all Bernies fault! What an absolute waste of time both of them seem to be at the minute, hopefully the FIA sort themselves out and stop these awful decisions which are slowly eroding away the reputation of the sport
The sport's governing body announced yesterday that it was prepared to defer the new system until 2010 if the teams were unhappy about it.
This was in response to a statement from the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) on Friday questioning the validity of the rule change.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph: "Bernie [Ecclestone, F1's commercial rights holder] told me that he talked to all the teams and everybody was happy.
"I was led to believe they all agreed. The World Council was under the impression that they had all agreed."
FOTA believes that the new rules, which will see the world championship handed to the driver with the most wins during the season, could not be changed at this late stage without unanimous support of the teams.
In light of complaints from leading figures, the FIA has now said that if the teams are unhappy then the introduction of the wins systems will be delayed until 2010.'
Taken from Autosport
Made me chuckle, what a farce, and according to Mosely its all Bernies fault! What an absolute waste of time both of them seem to be at the minute, hopefully the FIA sort themselves out and stop these awful decisions which are slowly eroding away the reputation of the sport
wtf! FOTA told the FIA what they thought should happen. If the teams had all supported it, then they would have suggested it.
Just trying to shift the blame. Complete disgrace.
Just trying to shift the blame. Complete disgrace.
I think this article on F1-Live sums up Ecclestones attitude right now.
"It's not the same with me," he explained. "Everything I have done, I have done for myself or the company that I run. I have never done it thinking it could be good for somebody else."
[en.f1-live.com]
"It's not the same with me," he explained. "Everything I have done, I have done for myself or the company that I run. I have never done it thinking it could be good for somebody else."
[en.f1-live.com]
The more I hear about Bernie recently the more I despise him. Scheming little man, as if he doesn't have enough money already, have a read of this from ITV-F1.com...
Bernie Ecclestone has claimed that Renault and McLaren threatened to throw the start of the new season into chaos by leading a teams' boycott of the Australian Grand Prix over a money dispute.
Formula 1’s commercial supremo told The Times that the threat was made during discussions over a new Concorde Agreement between Renault team principal Flavio Briatore, McLaren chairman Ron Dennis and Toyota president John Howett and himself last week.
Ecclestone alleged that Briatore and Dennis warned him they wouldn’t fly their respective team’s car out to Melbourne as planned unless he paid them commerical money they claimed was owed to the squads, with the pair also said to have warned that the rest of the FOTA teams were prepared to follow suit.
“Flavio said, ‘we’re not going to put our cars on the plane, we’re not going to Melbourne,’” Ecclestone told the newspaper.
“He — Flavio — started it, aided and abetted by Ron Dennis.”
However, Ecclestone said he averted the possible boycott by calling the pair’s bluff – telling the freight company that transports F1 team’s equipment around the world to pull the plug on the chartered flight for the whole grid.
“I picked up the phone to our people that handle all the freight to ask them to cancel the aeroplanes,” Ecclestone said.
“They were saying, ‘all the FOTA-schmota are not going — nobody’s going to go.’
“So I said what I’d better do is cancel the aircraft obviously. It costs a fortune to charter those things and almost as much to cancel them.”
Ecclestone added that Howett did not join in with the debate, saying: “Poor John was sitting there a bit confused about life in general.”
The Times reports that the teams left without receiving the money and that both Renault’s and McLaren’s cars were transported to Melbourne as normal.
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Bernie Ecclestone has claimed that Renault and McLaren threatened to throw the start of the new season into chaos by leading a teams' boycott of the Australian Grand Prix over a money dispute.
Formula 1’s commercial supremo told The Times that the threat was made during discussions over a new Concorde Agreement between Renault team principal Flavio Briatore, McLaren chairman Ron Dennis and Toyota president John Howett and himself last week.
Ecclestone alleged that Briatore and Dennis warned him they wouldn’t fly their respective team’s car out to Melbourne as planned unless he paid them commerical money they claimed was owed to the squads, with the pair also said to have warned that the rest of the FOTA teams were prepared to follow suit.
“Flavio said, ‘we’re not going to put our cars on the plane, we’re not going to Melbourne,’” Ecclestone told the newspaper.
“He — Flavio — started it, aided and abetted by Ron Dennis.”
However, Ecclestone said he averted the possible boycott by calling the pair’s bluff – telling the freight company that transports F1 team’s equipment around the world to pull the plug on the chartered flight for the whole grid.
“I picked up the phone to our people that handle all the freight to ask them to cancel the aeroplanes,” Ecclestone said.
“They were saying, ‘all the FOTA-schmota are not going — nobody’s going to go.’
“So I said what I’d better do is cancel the aircraft obviously. It costs a fortune to charter those things and almost as much to cancel them.”
Ecclestone added that Howett did not join in with the debate, saying: “Poor John was sitting there a bit confused about life in general.”
The Times reports that the teams left without receiving the money and that both Renault’s and McLaren’s cars were transported to Melbourne as normal.
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Stupid Umpa-Lumpa...
Well, even though i am not one of B. Ecclestone's fans, he didn't get to where he is now by caving in to every demand.
As for the attitude, give the man a chance to vent after the teams nixed his "champion determining system".
As for the attitude, give the man a chance to vent after the teams nixed his "champion determining system".
My bad for not knowing enough background information 
blatant manipulation by the media again, and it seems to have worked lol...
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blatant manipulation by the media again, and it seems to have worked lol...Circuit Thermalito
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Manipulation by Ecclestone you mean as his side is the only one that went public
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