All Posts Tagged With: "Concorde Agreement"
Daily Debate: Is It Acceptable For Teams To Miss Races?
Up until very recently, missing a grand prix was considered to be one of Formula One’s greatest sins and frowned upon by the sport’s commercial rights holder, Bernie Ecclestone. The repercussions of such tardiness were often met with huge fines, and as teams that missed races in the past were usually doing so due to [...]
BMW Fail To Find Buyer In Time: Concorde Not Signed
When BMW announced to the world they would be withdrawing from Formula One at the end of 2009, the Swiss-German squad had the option to either find a buyer for the team or close down the operation. The FIA apparently gave the motoring manufacturer a week to to sign the new Concorde Agreement, which meant [...]
New Concorde Agreement Signed
The FIA have announced the long awaited Concorde Agreement – which will run until the end of 2012 – has now been signed by the teams and current FIA president Max Mosley. The agreement concludes a long battle between FOTA and the FIA that at times, threatened to rip the sport apart. While the deal [...]
Games Galore Ahead Of Friday’s Announcement
Friday 12th June will be an important day for the current saga that is gripping Formula One and the 2010 championship. As has been widely written about, the majority of current teams are unhappy with the governance of the sport an the direction the new rules are taking Formula One. The FOTA-8 (Force India are [...]
Max Mosley Suggests That The FIA Are Not About To Bow To Demands
Speaking to Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell, FIA president Max Mosley has hinted that the FIA are not about to bow in to the conditions placed on the entries of the nine teams currently making up the Formula One Teams Association. Back in late May, the FOTA-9 submitted their entries, but demanded that the 2010 rules [...]
FOTA Teams Submit ‘Conditional’ 2010 Entry Requests To FIA
After what seems like an age, the remaining nine teams in the Formula One Teams Association (Williams were recently suspended) have submitted their entries to the FIA for the 2010 Formula One World Championship. The entries though are conditional. With Williams having already submitted, and along with USF1, Lola, Prodrive, Campos and Litespeed, the FIA [...]
Ferrari Clearly Want To Stay, But Also Want It On Their Terms
In a follow up to my previous post about the FIA and FOTA failing to reach an agreement over the proposed 2010 regulations that will see a voluntary £40m budget cap introduced, I thought I would take a moment to try and decipher Ferrari’s angle on this affair. Without doubt Ferrari are to Formula One [...]
Prodrive All But Give Up On Formula One
Dave Richards has admitted that he has all but given up on entering Formula One due to the customer car saga. When Prodrive won the twelfth team slot, Dave was open about his intentions to collaborate with another team, but with the continued resistance from other teams, it is looking less likely that the FIA [...]
