Are they serious!! :eek:

[RallyF1]

i received an e-mail for a survey about formula 1, and the prize is 2 tickets to the 2002 indianapolis g.p., so naturally i filled it but at the end it talked wbout some sort of f1 races having football teams(soccer) as theire sponsors, and few days ago i read on www.formula1.com that some team managers sre going to boycot formula1 and start another sereis, so naturally i am lost here can some one explain!!
long live rallying

 

[Talentless]

as far as i know, eddie jordan, rubens, m. schumacher and probably every other guy in f1 wuvs football. there has been talk for at least half a year of another series, something about manufacturers wanting more control. i did not look at much of it, i just like race descriptions and team changes news, stuff like that. i stopped reading those dull as can be stories about a driver and his teammate's and team's prediction about some race a while ago. "we think we will do good."

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[vat_man]

In summary, it's basically about television rights. Kirch, the guy Ecclestone sold most of the shares in the F1 TV rights holding company, has not committed to keeping F1 on free-to-air TV.

The manufacturers want the series on free-to-air to maximise potential audiences

Accordingly, the manufacturers (this includes the car makers, and some of the teams) have threatened to start another open wheeler series in competition to F1. A company was incorporated in the Netherlands last week to facilitate this.

All the participants in the F1 series are of course bound by the Concorde agreement not to compete, which from memory expires in around 2006-2007, so the current threat is that once the current Concorde agreement expires they'll set up a competing series.

I personally believe that this is simply a case of brinkmanship. All the teams want is a bigger slice of the TV revenues and a bigger say in the running of the sport.

Bernie and Max Mosley are too smart to let the series get devalued after they've worked so hard to build it up - it'll all get sorted out. Might take another three or four years, but it'll work out.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

vat_man is completely right in fact and analysis (IMO).

However, RallyF1 talks about a football-related series, and this is not related to the threatened manufacturer breakaway. Thi sis a separate one-make race series using 4L Judd V10 engines mounted in Reynard (I think, may be Lola) chassis. The idea is that teams put their logos on the cars (this does not cost them anything), and revenues from merchandising go to the teams, everything else goes to the organisers.

However they have just announced that they are postponing the series for a year, and in spite of them having four teams (off the top of my head Leeds United, Benefica, PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona), they haven't got any drivers, and haven't got contracts with most of the circuits.

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
vat_man is completely right in fact and analysis (IMO).

However, RallyF1 talks about a football-related series, and this is not related to the threatened manufacturer breakaway. Thi sis a separate one-make race series using 4L Judd V10 engines mounted in Reynard (I think, may be Lola) chassis. The idea is that teams put their logos on the cars (this does not cost them anything), and revenues from merchandising go to the teams, everything else goes to the organisers.

However they have just announced that they are postponing the series for a year, and in spite of them having four teams (off the top of my head Leeds United, Benefica, PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona), they haven't got any drivers, and haven't got contracts with most of the circuits.

The cars are indeed Reynards - they're actually Reynard's failed bid for the Formula 3000 series for next year that Lola won.

There was some talk of Mansell, Hill and Blundell driving, but apparently the organisers didn't want the series turning into an F1 retirement home, so they've parked it for a year.

If things pick up economy-wise you should see this run 2003 - the FIA don't have any issues with it, as it means Reynard will have a fully developed car for the next F3000 bid.