Sounds pretty reasonable. The FIA get what they want in the shape of a budet cap, but the teams aren't stymied by major restrictions straight away, and instead work their way down. And the new teams don't get compromised by being unable to meet the maximum expenditure because they get discounts and technical know-how.
It's all on Mosley, isn't it? There's an expression: it takes two to tango. If FOTA were so concerned about the budget cap, why did they not raise their doubts soner? Why did all the teams go their own way to begin with rather than unify? If Mosely is so evil and intend on drving the teams away, why did he just offer them a lifeline?
Mosely will have his unanimous agreement because FOTA are already standing together. By pointing out the above passage, he's offering them the opportunity to continue negotiations beyond Friday.
You must be joking? "Surrender all your opinions and we might do some more talking" looks like a reasonable deal to you? Insanely uncompromising is what it is.
You might not have noticed, but the teams are not against cost cutting.
Far more reasonable than creating a splinter championship that won't survive because it cannot be organised in time and because FOTA cannot race and referee at the same time with the FIA championship dying because it is made up of all new teams. It might make for half a championship, but last time I checked, half a championship is more than no championship. And with FOTA being so united, do you really think they're going to let the FIA walk all over them? Of course not! If things don't go their way, they can always withdraw entirely.
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I'm a bit confused with what you mean. The teams have concerns about the new regulation. These concerns are recognised as reasonable concerns by most people following the sport. The teams recognise the need to cut costs and propose their way of doing it and explain why FIAs plan is thought of as unreasonble. Normally, two parties that want to solve things for the best of all sit down and talk. Max then thinks about the situation carefully and then says "my way or the highway". It's the optimal stance to pick a serious fight or to tear down the whole creation.
If it stands between Mosley highway or breakaway series then I prefer seeing a breakaway series. Best thing would be if Mosley started agreeing on compromise solution but the latest events rather point in the opposite direction.
As previously stated, a brekaway series is doomed. Firstly, fifteen races could not be organised in the space of just six months considering that FOM holds the rights to the "Grand Prix" title and the races; a FOTA-led series would not be able to hold races on those circuits, and I doubt many of the remaining ones would be ready or considered safe enough. Secondly, FOTA is made up of the teams that race. If they are racing, they cannot also be making the rule book; look at the Olympics or any other professional sport like rugby where the referee always comes from a different country to that of the competitors. You might prefer the breakaway series, but if that happens, the breakaway series will die as sure as the sun rises of a morning. Right now, a rival series is the worst possible thing for the sport. You don't want Formula One to die, do you? Because the way you're going, you're killing it faster than Mosley ever could.
