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Max ‘please be gone’ Moseley

Max has stated that the 3 year engine freeze will happen. At the moment only Cosworth, Ferrari and Renault have agreed on the 3 year change freeze.

Max has to ask himself, why would the engine suppliers want to adhere to the freeze? yes it will certainly cut costs, but the manufacturers make advancements that are directly mapped to the production cars they make, ABS, TC, multi valve engines, variable valves and direct injection have all come directly from the F1 engine programs.

Max has to remember that the manufacturers are not in F1 for the prestige, no they are there to make money and develop 'real world' uses for the technology.  After all where would Lotus be today without there F1 knowledge of aluminium and composite materials.

Yes Max we do need to cap costs, but a 3 year freeze? the Indycart engines would become more technologically impressive than the F1 lumps.

This cracks me up - He was asked if the engine freeze is like using the same football players for 3 years, Mosley said: “It’s more like saying that the players have to wear the same type of boots for three years. I don’t think the public is interested in the development of football boot technology. They’re more interested in goals."

Ecclestone said: “They can change their staff if they want to. I‘m becoming a Ron Dennis supporter. Ron always wants to have a level playing field. What Max wants to create, is exactly that."

No it's not Max, a good majority of people who are genuinely interested in F1 are interested primarily in the technology behind F1. Rossi called it perfectly "F1 is an engineers sport"

Oh and Bernie, get some balls and tell Max to wake up and smell the coffee.