I guess the reason everyone paints Max Mosely as some kind of dictator is that generally he is the only one who speaks to the media and he is the President. Ultimately others may make decisions but as President naturally he receives the criticism or the credit. Just like Adrian Newey may be credited for designing mnay great cars even if he didn’t design and develop each component.

Do you have proof of this, or is it speculation?

I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just curious.

Mosley may have succeeded in weakening the Drivers Association, but if all the teams speak together with one voice, they will be listened to.

I agree with Noel though, we always paint Mosley as this evil dictator (I will believe otherwise when he quits next year tbh.) but surely other top people in the FIA are to blame for many of the stupid rules and events that occurred.

They’re racers not polititions, they could car less about the politics, as long as they get to turn up and race in a great car every couple of weeks.

We (as in the general F1 community) tend to paint Max as the evil puppetmaster. But does all the blame lie with him as an individual or a group of people at the top of the Association?

No opinion offered, I’m just wondering what your thoughts are

Coincidence or statement of intent? Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the meeting when that name was mooted.

It also tells me that I think the teams realize that the balance of powers among them, that is, the number of influential people in charge, has shrunken rather badly since then although it doesn’t quite show on the grid. It seems they don’t like the shrinking competition any more than we do, and I’m sure most of us couldn’t be happier to know this.

FIA want an engine redesign, not just as an impromptu tactic to assert power, but because they want to make sure the similar redesign program that IRL are undertaking cannot pretend to be a trump against the sport of F1. The advantage to having fewer arguing (because talking isn’t something they do well) heads in F1 is that it will be easier for the teams to influence F1’s 2010-and-beyond design, instead of leaving the decision to a man with nationalist ties and kinky fantasies.

The curious thing to me is that Bernie and Max were apparently ready to bury the hatchet and move on, with the joint press release about moving the British GP to Donnington as proof of renewed cooperation between the two. Now, however, Bernie is apparently seeking to get the teams under his wing, and the teams seem eager to have some sort of protection from Max, even with his promise to step down later on.

It’s a bit outside of the lines of this post, but the reports I’ve been reading about the new assosiation have painted it as being dedicated to voicing the team’s ideas and cocnerns over the future of F1. If that is accurate, I have been hoping that some teams would bring up and support a return to the U.S. in the near future. With Bernie having a prominent role in the group, however, I don’t know how realistic that could be.