F1 Relegations
December 11th, 2006
Pitpass is reporting that Max Mosley wants to introduce a “relegation scheme” whereby persistantly slow teams are booted out to make room for other teams. There’s more than that, one of the suggestions is that a team consistently running at the back may be forced to drop one of its cars. In an even wackier version of this plan, the team could be “relegated” to GP2.
I haven’t seen this reported elsewhere, and because it is second hand from the News of the World (English tabloid), it’s hard to say how accurate it is. On the face of it there does seem to be some wacky ideas expressed. What’s wrong with the traditional way whereby the sports authorities slowly strangle the financial lifeline of any private team they don’t like where they wish to make way for a new advertising billboard of a team?
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Don Speekingleesh | December 11th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
He mentioned this idea before and quickly dropped it when everyone realised how uttery impractical it is.
2. Rob | December 11th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
More worrying but no less wacky is the usage energy recovered from braking to power a push-to-pass button. Then there is the recycling of energy from exhaust gasses and the lopping of 50% of downforce in a couple of years. I think he may be losing his marbles.
3. Oliver White | December 11th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Are you suggesting he had any in the first place?
4. bluenose | December 12th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Why relegate at all? If there are more prospective cars than grid positions, qualifying should sort things out (as it did in the past)..
5. ro ijbema | January 9th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
so will we end up with a grid of 4 cars?2 ferrari’s and 2 Renaults
‘cos the rest is under performing….
big slicks,no downforce,no wings and F1 is sorted!
6. dekrazee1 | January 18th, 2007 at 6:24 am
hahahaha
Senility has finally gotten Bernie
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