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NINE TEAMS TO BOYCOTT FIA MEETING
Last Updated: Thursday, 07, April, 2005, 20:07
Every Formula 1 team but Ferrari will boycott next Friday’s meeting with the FIA.
The ‘Group of Nine’ alliance between nine of F1’s ten teams met today to discuss the breakaway ‘Grand Prix World Championship’ (GPWC) series that is scheduled to commence in 2008.
Ferrari has already signed up to Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley’s vision of F1 until at least 2012, but the other nine teams are unhappy about the financial and political incentives said to have been offered to Ferrari by the FIA.
As a result, the GPWC teams are forging ahead with their plans for an alternative ‘F1’.
At a meeting today, all nine agreed not to attend the FIA meeting on April 15.
“We have a great alignment between the nine teams and the five manufacturers,” BAR’s Nick Fry told Autosport.
“We're working through the four different working groups, with each of the teams reporting positive progress and a good endorsement of what is going to happen.
"But this work will take a couple of months to complete.
“We are still heading towards our schedule of having something - which we will be pleased to share with the FIA and Bernie - probably around July-August time.
"So no-one is going to attend the meeting with Max, and there will be a press release to say that."
A similar boycott took place when Mosley last attempted to discuss F1’s future with the teams in late January.
On that occasion the only team representative present was Ferrari’s Jean Todt, a situation that Minardi boss Paul Stoddart anticipated even before today’s GPWC meeting.
“It will be tea and biscuits with Todt again I expect,” Stoddart told
Reuters on Wednesday.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis added that any decision to miss the FIA meeting should not be seen as a boycott.
“If the decision was not to attend, that's not out of disrespect for the FIA or a lack of desire to find a way forward,” he said to Reuters.
"It's more likely to be linked to the fact that we'd like to have a
clear understanding of what we want and we're not there yet.
“People should remember that what we're talking about is the post-2007 position.
"There's a bit of time yet. We don't want to be stampeded.”
Last Updated: Thursday, 07, April, 2005, 20:07
Every Formula 1 team but Ferrari will boycott next Friday’s meeting with the FIA.
The ‘Group of Nine’ alliance between nine of F1’s ten teams met today to discuss the breakaway ‘Grand Prix World Championship’ (GPWC) series that is scheduled to commence in 2008.
Ferrari has already signed up to Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley’s vision of F1 until at least 2012, but the other nine teams are unhappy about the financial and political incentives said to have been offered to Ferrari by the FIA.
As a result, the GPWC teams are forging ahead with their plans for an alternative ‘F1’.
At a meeting today, all nine agreed not to attend the FIA meeting on April 15.
“We have a great alignment between the nine teams and the five manufacturers,” BAR’s Nick Fry told Autosport.
“We're working through the four different working groups, with each of the teams reporting positive progress and a good endorsement of what is going to happen.
"But this work will take a couple of months to complete.
“We are still heading towards our schedule of having something - which we will be pleased to share with the FIA and Bernie - probably around July-August time.
"So no-one is going to attend the meeting with Max, and there will be a press release to say that."
A similar boycott took place when Mosley last attempted to discuss F1’s future with the teams in late January.
On that occasion the only team representative present was Ferrari’s Jean Todt, a situation that Minardi boss Paul Stoddart anticipated even before today’s GPWC meeting.
“It will be tea and biscuits with Todt again I expect,” Stoddart told
Reuters on Wednesday.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis added that any decision to miss the FIA meeting should not be seen as a boycott.
“If the decision was not to attend, that's not out of disrespect for the FIA or a lack of desire to find a way forward,” he said to Reuters.
"It's more likely to be linked to the fact that we'd like to have a
clear understanding of what we want and we're not there yet.
“People should remember that what we're talking about is the post-2007 position.
"There's a bit of time yet. We don't want to be stampeded.”
