Internal FIA problems, Bernie and the teams

Guest · Post 12 Oct 2005, 07:11

manchild wrote: Michelin suggested – FIA accepted – 9 teams voted against – Ferrari voted for and since it wasn’t unanimous what FIA suggested went into regulations.

http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Re ... 04-01.html

“All the teams were prepared to agree the bodywork changes and tyre regulations contained in Package 2. However, opinions differed on the engines. The closest to the necessary 8 out of 10 votes was at the meeting of September 6, 2004, when the TWG voted 7 to 3 in favour of the Package 2 engine rules.”

manchild · Post 12 Oct 2005, 12:42

When spokesman of 9 teams makes press release and says that 9 teams were against no tyre change than I believe 9 teams. They are in war so I'm not buying what Mosley's web site publishes.

Guest · Post 14 Oct 2005, 08:52

manchild wrote:When spokesman of 9 teams makes press release and says that 9 teams were against no tyre change than I believe 9 teams. They are in war so I'm not buying what Mosley's web site publishes.

Link ?

manchild · Post 14 Oct 2005, 12:43

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_ ... t_id=24661

Stoddy:
"To be absolutely clear on this point for the record, nine out of the 10 Formula One teams did not want this regulation. In fact, we implored Max Mosley to move forward with a single control tyre for Formula One. Both he and Ferrari, however, steadfastly refused to do so."

DaveKillens · Post 14 Oct 2005, 19:01

From an outsider's perspective, I would love to see how the decisions were allowed. It appears to me that Mosley put forward three proposals, and the teams had to vote on only one, with no option for a mixed compromise. So politically, a team could appear to contradict themselves, but under the circumstances of the dieisions Max allowed them, they had to pick what they thought best, and probably, it wasn't exactly what they wished.