Ecclestone: The FIA is a joke
#1
03-24-2011, 07:57 PM
Ecclestone: The FIA is a joke
Ecclestone: The FIA is a joke - GPUpdate.net
Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has hit out at FIA President Jean Todt ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, criticising the Frenchman over his leadership style since taking power at the motorsport governing body in October 2009.
With F1 set to undergo major changes in the near future, Ecclestone is becoming increasingly concerned about the sport and how it is being governed.
"Jean Todt is a poor man’s Max," Eccclestone told The Daily Express. "He has been travelling around the world doing what Max (Mosley, former FIA President) didn’t do too much – kissing the babies and shaking the hands. It is probably good for the FIA but we don’t need it in Formula 1."
Ecclestone went on to criticise the planned introduction of environmentally friendly turbo engines in 2013, labelling the FIA as ‘a joke’.
"It has just cost an awful lot of money and I don’t know what it has proven," he added. "I don’t think anyone knows or cares what it is or what it does. I get upset with these things. We should write the rules with the teams. The competitors have got to race and have got a big investment. We have got a big investment.
"We should write the rules, give them to the FIA and they should make sure they are followed. It should be like the police – the police don’t write the rules and say you’ve got to do 30 miles an hour. The FIA is a joke."
Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has hit out at FIA President Jean Todt ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, criticising the Frenchman over his leadership style since taking power at the motorsport governing body in October 2009.
With F1 set to undergo major changes in the near future, Ecclestone is becoming increasingly concerned about the sport and how it is being governed.
"Jean Todt is a poor man’s Max," Eccclestone told The Daily Express. "He has been travelling around the world doing what Max (Mosley, former FIA President) didn’t do too much – kissing the babies and shaking the hands. It is probably good for the FIA but we don’t need it in Formula 1."
Ecclestone went on to criticise the planned introduction of environmentally friendly turbo engines in 2013, labelling the FIA as ‘a joke’.
"It has just cost an awful lot of money and I don’t know what it has proven," he added. "I don’t think anyone knows or cares what it is or what it does. I get upset with these things. We should write the rules with the teams. The competitors have got to race and have got a big investment. We have got a big investment.
"We should write the rules, give them to the FIA and they should make sure they are followed. It should be like the police – the police don’t write the rules and say you’ve got to do 30 miles an hour. The FIA is a joke."
#2
03-24-2011, 08:00 PM
Good for him. Although I don't think that going to turbo engines will be the worst thing ever, I do agree that it is weak for FIA to change rules because the new impetus for shoe-box cars.
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