The new name will be “Formula Universe” or FU.

F1 is going to need to be green of die – simple.

To make F1 green simply limit the BHP of petrol combustion engines and delimit the BHP of alternative energy systems. A re-chargable F1 car with zero emissions and unlimited BHP up against a severly limited petrol engine and Ron Dennis will be wearing tie dye and sandals in a flash.

As a techno-geek, I don’t really care about drivers. We have pilotless airplanes killing terrorists in arabia, why not have driverless cars? F1 manufacturing rules should be like FIA land speed rules, i.e. none! Just go as fast as possible around the course for 90 minutes. With the driver out of the car, there would be no need for all those cumbersome safety regulations, either. To make things a little more competitive, I would require the telemetry to be open, with published protocols and error protection but no encryption allowed.

But in the last few years Max has had trouble convincing the teams to cut costs. The main team which has been against him is McLaren who have often stated that they should be free to spend more money than others (including them refusing to put money into Paul Stoddard’s fighting fund for small teams). Ferrari have been bad too, but McLaren have been a key thorn in Max’s side over cost reduction.

Perhaps Max felt that it would be a good idea to make McLaren a hell of a lot poorer somehow and then push for his cost reductions?

The races are boring. F1 is boring if one is not a tech-head/geek. The costs are high.
Whomever does not realize that this is a dangerous situation is does not live in the real world.

Max is a moron. However, the team bosses aren’t acting.

I take it by all this ‘green talk’ that Max must drive a Prius (Toyota Hybrid, not sure what name is used in Europe)to work and heats his house using is own arrogance. If he wants to reduce the carbon footprint, why not just have a qually and no race, we already know the outcome.

I first started to watch F1 because technical side of it (I’m a geek) and I love to read about the history and the drastic designs that have been attempted. I love to dig for every little bit of technical info about these cars. F1 seems to have taken a nose dive this year, and there is one man responsible.

F1 is on life support, and Max is doing his best to pull the plug.

Being such a long comment section:
(Sean)-3. F1 cars have no resemblance to road-going cars. (Not even the fuel is the same.)
Hence open wheel racing. Your obviously missing the point of F1, go watch ETCC if that is what you want.

(Haplo)This should be indeed about that, and I’m too sick of Max and his nonsense. He should be running NASCRAP.
Nascar wouldn’t have him. Although you may not like that type of racing, it regulations are clear and consise. Not to mention that the general fan base is happy with its current direction. But in essence, Max wants F1 to be an open wheel NASCAR.

First of all i believe that F1 is not only about racing in the track but also racing off the track. Yes, we need to improve the first but also to keep the second, and with standardised cars we may lost the latter. Max Mosley turned the sport safe, that is true, but in this matter of reducing costs he is just destroying the spirit of the sport with all the decisions he took. We have Champ Cars, IRL, GP2, A1GP, Asian GP2 now, so why another standard cars championship if we already have the whole lot? If the manufacturers wanted to reduce costs, why did they bought team after team in the first place? I know that in the middle of this costs escalade we lost a few historic teams such as Lotus and Tyrrell, but it was him and Bernie who wanted to make this a manufacturer championship! And what’s the problem if the F1 doesnt look like a road car? Doesn’t that job belong to WTCC? I believe that F1 is a different business and making it look like another existent championship is madness. I do agree with Clive: He got to go.