FIA prepares to Battle Bernie

From Autoweek.....

The FIA World Motor Sport Council has started a review of the way Formula One is governed. It also announced a projected revival of Formula Two next season as a new, low-cost F1 feeder series.
Both moves are seen as direct challenges to Bernie Ecclestone’s F1 group, which holds the commercial rights to Grand Prix racing through 2110, and acquired the GP2 Series in August last year.
Ecclestone’s attempts to put a new commercial agreement in place with the FIA and the teams are being thwarted by Max Mosley. The Concorde Agreement expired in December 2007, but the FIA president has declined to sign a new one and has accused Ecclestone of using the previous agreements to exercise control over the sport.
As for F2, insiders wonder how the FIA can possibly create a new category within a few short months, and how it can possibly achieve its objective of operational costs of $310,000 per car.

 

This is just what Formula 1 needs, the FIA deciding that it needs to exercise more control over the worlds most successful racing series.

This stinks of a power struggle, the FIA seems to exercise too much power and influence over F1 as it is, there can be an argument made that Bernie Ecclestone has hurt as much as helped F1, but the last thing needed is Max Mosley playing God with the F1 circus.