Owners Liberty Plan Cost Cap For Formula One
Zeeshan Mehtab Published April 06, 2018 | 05:22 PM
Formula One teams heard a challenging vision of a cost-controlled and "Americanised" Formula One when new owners Liberty Media revealed their blueprint for the future on Friday.
Manama, April 6 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Apr, 2018 ) :Formula One teams heard a challenging vision of a cost-controlled and "Americanised" Formula One when new owners Liberty Media revealed their blueprint for the future on Friday.
For the sport's two leading teams, Mercedes and Ferrari, the planned budget cap and revenue controls would mean, in all likelihood, a less dominant role in the sport. After hearing the five-point plan, the team bosses of the two top teams immediately held a meeting of their own as Mercedes team chiefs Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda invited Maurizio Arrivabene of Ferrari to their hospitality building at the track in Bahrain.
The meetings were held just hours ahead of Friday's opening free practice session for this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix. The long-awaited statement, covered five key areas: control of budgets and revenues, a new structure for governance, sporting and technical rules, engines, and overall costs.
The introduction of a cost cap, designed to put the onus on wise spending rather than cuts, together with streamlining other areas of the organisation, was a main feature of a package aimed at making the sport more "fan-centred.
" "Formula One is a sport with a rich history," said Formula One chief executive Chase Carey.
"We want to preserve, protect and enhance that history by unleashing F1's potential, by putting our fans at the heart of a more competitive and more exciting sport. "We are driven by one desire -- to create the world's leading sporting brand.
Fan-centred, commercially successful, profitable for our teams and with technological innovation at its heart." Ross Brawn, F1's technical director, was also at the meeting. "It was more a meeting to pass the information on and to pass the views onto the teams," said Brawn.
"The teams need to digest it now, and then the discussion proper will start. It was a straightforward meeting with no major controversies."
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