'Fireworks' expected at meeting about future of F1

  • Published on 15 Jan 2018 08:53
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  • By: Rob Veenstra

An F1 team boss is expecting "fireworks" at a forthcoming meeting. Roger Benoit, the veteran correspondent for the Swiss newspaper Blick, said the 2021 engine rules and income distribution will be discussed at the Thursday meeting. "I expect fireworks," McLaren boss Zak Brown is quoted as saying.

Benoit also said grid rows made up of potentially three or four cars will be discussed, as will be the addition of a digital 'ticker' on the Halo. Meanwhile, Benoit - who has attended and covered grands prix for decades - also expressed concerns about the direction of the sport's media. He said the FIA has set up a media working group "to make coverage better".

But Benoit wondered: "How is that going to happen when Zak Brown and his billion-dollar partners on the internet hunt all sorts of motor sport sites and agencies to buy?" He added that an effective media monopoly is "politically very dangerous" for F1. "The FIA should speak a word of power and not sit idly by," he suggested. (GMM)

How are some of the tracks even supposed to be able to hold 4 cars side by side?

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  • Jan 15 2018 - 09:42

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  • How are some of the tracks even supposed to be able to hold 4 cars side by side?

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    • Jan 15 2018 - 09:42
    • Kean

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      I was thinking the same thing. Leave well enough alone, I say.

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      • Jan 15 2018 - 16:38
    • Can you imagine Monaco with 4 cars side by side? That'd be a spectacle to behold!

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      • Jan 15 2018 - 17:49
  • Barron

    Posts: 625

    An interesting clash of interests there with Zak Brown. Looks as if he’s doing a ‘Bernie’. There’s a couple of daft ideas out there already. ‘Digital ticker’ on the halo? I’ve heard of some crazy F1 ideas but that is pretty much out there. I’ve a better idea, a ‘Halorometer’ which projects a solid colour reflecting the Drivers mood. Yes, that would work very well Zak. Four cars wide? Why stop there? Make it six wide and then you’ve really got a grid. The expression ‘fiddling while Rome burns’ comes to mind with this lot...

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    • Jan 15 2018 - 11:31
  • denis1304

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    digital 'ticker' on the Halo should be similar as Anthony Hamilton's "Info Wing"

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    • Jan 15 2018 - 19:35
  • Major Tom

    Posts: 152

    Like the Halo wasn't stupid enough already,

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    • Jan 16 2018 - 00:49

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