Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] GPWC group against FIA decision

Source: Motorsport.com F1 News
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=113813&amp;FS=F1
Grand Prix World Championship, the breakaway group that proposes to run
itsown rival championship from 2008, has spoken out against the FIA's
mostrecent rule changes. Manufacturers FIAT, DaimlerChrysler, Ford,
Renault andBMW, which make up the GPWC, believe the latest regulation
changes willundermine Formula One's position as the pinnacle of
motorsport.
Relations between the FIA and GPWC have been uneasy since the rival
groupannounced its intentions to stage its own series once the current
ConcordeAgreement comes to an end. Now the GPWC has released a statement
saying theFIA has disregarded cost cutting measures proposed by teams in
December lastyear and that F1 needs to keep its levels of high
technological advancement.
"The manufacturers are in favour of reducing costs, but Formula One needs
tokeep its fundamental characteristic that it is a showcase for the
highestlevel of technology, a place where the most advanced research is
applied,"the statement read. "It is also important that any change to the
rules beestablished with sufficient advance notice knowing also that any
changewhatsoever inevitably increases cost, at least in the short term."
"Therefore GPWC is dismayed to note that the cost cutting measures
alreadyproposed by the teams in December last year and supported by
themanufacturers have effectively been partially disregarded by the FIA.
Thesemeasures were widely agreed to be reasonable and adequate and would
withoutdoubt have considerably reduced costs and fully enhanced the
spectacle ofFormula One."
"While it does not believe that the content, and manner of implementation
ofWednesday's proposed changes are consistent with the contractual
frameworkunder which Formula One operates, GPWC is committed to resolving
matters ina manner that supports the sport."
"GPWC will therefore ask the teams affiliated to its members to analyse
theappropriate mechanisms available to them, to ensure that changes are
notimplemented, or precedents set, that will cause problems for Formula
One,the teams and the drivers in the future."
It's speculated that the manufacturers involved in F1 that comprise the
GPWCmay even boycott the first race in Melbourne, only seven weeks away.
Thegroup feels the regulations changes that apply to the 2003
championship havecome too late to be put into practice: "If the teams are
unable to implementthese rule changes, there will be a major problem come
Melbourne," Mercedesmotorsport director Norbert Haug was quoted as saying
by the Swiss press.
If the GPWC do boycott the Australian Grand Prix, only BAR, Sauber,
Toyota,Minardi and Jordan would be on the gird, a scenario that appears
highlyunlikely.
FIA president Max Mosley is not about to be bullied by the
manufacturerscomplaints: "If a manufacturer doesn't like the changes,
then that is OK,"he told the Guardian newspaper. "And if a big
manufacturer aims atretreating from Formula One for this reason, then
that is OK too. We gainmore through the change of the rules, than what we
lose through the retreatof the manufacturers."
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 motorsport.
Come Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, Renault e BMW?
Ma nessuno ha ancora spiegato loro che la manovra va a devastante danno 
solo nei confronti DELL'ITALIA?!?!?!?
Se leggessero un po' queste pagine si chiarirebbero le idee 'sti 
ignoranti.

 One,the teams and the drivers in the future."
Allora siamo a posto. Le variazioni non provocheranno di certo "problemi"
per la F.1 nel futuro, piuttosto sarebbe il non fare nulla, come
piacerebbe ai GC, che comporterebbe grossi guai per il futuro della F.1...
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