Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1
Titolo: Max di Normandia [ENG]

JULY 2, 2009
Is this Max Mosley's strategy?
During the Battle of Hastings in 1066 legend has it that William of 
Normandy was nearly defeated after his first major attack on the English 
on Senlac Ridge. As the Normans retreated the English broke ranks and 
charged after the Normans, yelling rude things and killing as many of 
them as possible. After a lengthy melee, the armies reformed again. 
William stopped for a think and concluded that without cohesion the 
English were much less effective and so tried a number of attacks and 
then deliberate retreats, drawing the English off the ridge and killing 
as many as possible. This weakened the English and after King Harold was 
hit in the eye by an arrow they were defeated.
What does this have to do with motor racing?
Well, it appears that Max Mosley may be attempting a similar strategy 
with FOTA. His initial attack ended in a near rout. He was forced to 
agree terms of a deal which was clearly not what he wanted - even though 
he says that he always intended to retire, having made a pledge to the 
FIA General Assembly a year ago that he would not stand for re-election 
in 2009. At the time he was fighting for his life as FIA at the time and 
so said was necessary to achieve his own survival. He promised the same 
to the F1 teams at the recent World Council. Now it seems he is saying 
he may not stand by these pledges, citing FIA members asking him to 
stay. As Mosley said himself back in 1991 when he was trying to unseat 
his predecessor Jean-Marie Balestre, clubs rely on the FIA leaders for 
many things and it is best not to rock the boat. They are bound to be 
supportive if asked or simply because they wish to curry favour.
This kind of policy will only work once or twice, after which no-one 
will trust anything that Mosley says.
It would be the story of the boy who cried wolf.
FOTA is currently lulled into a sense of security, which means that 
there are probably no preparations going on for a FOTA championship. If 
Mosley takes a couple of months off, doing very little, and then comes 
back in October he will weaken FOTA's position completely. Some say it 
is already too late for FOTA to make its own championship. Some argue 
that when the teams realise what has happened Ferrari will break away 
from FOTA and do a deal with the FIA and FOM and the rest of the FOTA 
teams will have to follow, getting whatever terms they can get. Others 
say that FOTA will stay together and that the FIA clubs will eventually 
have to understand that Mosley has to go. Mosley is no doubt hoping to 
get to the election in October before that happens.
In the meantime, all of this is damagaing the F1 brand. In a poll 
carried out by 
MarketingWeek.co.uk
 more than half the respondents 
believed that the row between the Formula 1 teams and the FIA, has 
damaged the F1 brand. Sponsors are attracted to the Formula 1 brand 
thanks to its associations with glamour, fame and exciting technology. 
They are attracted by Ferrari and by the Monaco GP. They are not 
attracted by what is happening right now.
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 is already too late for FOTA to make its own championship.
In effetti il bluff ha retto a malapena 5 giorni in estate, quando la
Fota parlava di "decidere l'anno d'inizio" del mondiale alternativo,
figuriamoci a ottobre...