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Titolo: [ENG] F1 Chief: Changes Will Save Sport

Source: SportingLife.com
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By Simon Stone, PA Sport
Formula One chief Max Mosley believes the sport was in danger of
completecollapse without the introduction of this week's revolutionary
rule changes.
Driver aids, such as traction control and launch control are to be phased
outby the 2004 season while spare cars and direct communication between
the pitlane and the driver have been scrapped for the coming year.
The changes have been made in response to the deteriorating interest in
F1,which has been increasingly dominated by Michael Schumacher and
Ferrari.
In addition, the decision of the Prost and Arrows teams to pull out of
thesport and concern surrounding the future of Minardi and Jordan, two of
the threeremaining independent teams, led to a feeling of further erosion
in F1'sstanding in the sporting world.
While the changes have not been widely accepted, McLaren chief Ron
Dennisbeing a chief dissenter, Mosley claims there was no option if F1
was to continuein his present form.
"In the medium to long term, F1 could have collapsed," Mosley told BBC
Radio5 Live.
"One or two of the independent teams might have stopped. The bigger
sidesmight not have been able to run a third car and they might have
stopped aswell.
"If we had left everything as it was, the whole thing could
havespiralled."
Dennis believes teams should stand or fall by their own success and
isconcerned that halting technological progress in F1 will weaken its
position atthe forefront of the car industry.
Some have claimed the rule changes take the sport back a decade in terms
oftechnology but with results becoming more and more predictable, Mosley
feltthere was a consensus of agreement about the ground-breaking move.
"To begin with there was a shocked silence," said Mosley.
"One or two teams were against and most of the others had reservations on
onepoint or another. Ron Dennis said he had so much to say he didn't want
to sayanything but in the end the consensus was that something had to be
done.
"When you know who is going to win each race because the cars are so
reliableit becomes uninteresting.
"If you eliminate some of the electronic aids, you eliminate some of
theuncertainty. But in the end the best team will win, so we are not
punishingsuccess."
Minardi and Jordan have received £10million each from the larger teams in
aneffort to ensure they get through the season, such was the fear of the
F1 gridnot being able to muster 10 teams for the coming year.
"When it gets so bad that teams are going out, you realise that if
itcontinues there will be someone else to follow.
"You can't say who but it's obvious that Minardi and Jordan would have
beenstruggling if Bernie Ecclestone and the other teams had not come up
with thispackage."
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