Horray Horray Horray...You go boys!...Eat your hearts out Bernie and Max.!!!! Give the fans what they want guys...SUPER CARS!

If the FIA is unwilling to compromise for the majority of the teams then maybe it's time for the FIA to just close down.

This is nice. About time they showed the middle finger to Max!! The current F1 races just aren't right. Miss the old days. If the teams do not want to cut costs then why should the FIA be so concerned? Why don't Max and the other guys cut their profits & expenses too? All the best to the new league :)

Hurrah! Hope to see some 'good' racing next year. Congrats to the teams for being united! The way forward, guys!

Right so , it is the same as asking the larger footbal clubs to limit their spending for the top players.

It's not so easy to set up competition in a short period. FIA has probably some exclusive contracts with different tracks and countries. It can take years and millions of dollars to reach the level and reach of current F1. Only the fans will end up paying the price at the end !!

That's the way the cookie crumbles. Since Max and Bernie wdn't budge, they can as well keep their championship. The teams will give we fans what we want: top quality racing.

If Max Mosley believes that fans want to watch an F1 series with 11 new teams, without the 8 powerhouse teams, then he is seriously mistaken. He should really step down from his role in the F1A.

Good on you guys,

the FIA has been holding you back for to long and making to much money of the show themselves. for the F1 to be in Oz, they charge the state something like 160 million just to have the right to hold the race down there and thats a joke when the teams are forced to reduce their own cost. im sure the states of Victoria, New South Wales or Queensland would be more then willing to look at a new and more hopefully more profitable experience.

im all for this and hope it leads to what the fans want, better racing, faster times and more entertainment.

Hey Bernie and Max! I am leaving too!

This is one of the best news I have read today! GO F1 GUYS!!! Happy to see them all united. We can at least expect some REAL racing next season and not this MAX BS! Supercars is what we want...

Good Job FOTA. F1 should remain what it is suppose to: a race of "super cars" , great new technology and fantastic drivers.
Max wants to make a bullock cart race. Let him have his "you can't do it like that" races.
Make rules which allow more freedom and inovation. ( and cheaper tickets on race day)

No-one wants to watch a competition where everyone is equal – that's why A1 is going broke.

Finding the tracks for the rival competition wouldn't be hard.........there were many tracks( like Suzuka, Indianapolis etc) that were left out the F1 calender to accommodate the new ones................These teams can use those tracks.............I even think that most of the sponsors of F1 wont stick on.............But managing all these things will be very tough.............Anywayz best of luck FOTA...........

Max Mosley is the man responsible for the death of Formula One.
He is the one and the only one responsible for this mess.

Way to go!
For the past 5 years F1 has become less and less interesting due to the stupid changes that these (2) people have imposed on the sport, with a very few exceptions off course!
Let us not forget that F1 is, as the name implies, F1!, not F3000, i.e. the creme de la creme of motor racing, the sport that seperates the men from the boys (and defenitely from women!). The sport where the one with the most money wins, and as a result creating the ultimate advences with respect to automotive safety and technology whithin it, bringing the sport forward and making it more exciting season after season both for the drivers and the fans. I am sure we all remember the names of the drivers who either left F1 for other motor racing alternatives, or just simply quit before it was too late.

Bottom line, if you don't have enough dough, then you should not enter the kitchen!

I've been a fan of F1 for 25 years and I'm happy that FOTA have taken this decision. Max Mosley has been detrimental to the sport for too long and should be removed from office. I cannot believe he demanded that they sign a contract and only then negotiate the conditions, no one in their right mind would do that. His dictatorial style is entirely the main factor in this issue – look at the way he treated McLaren.

Remove him and a lot of these problems would be resolved.

Well, it has been a long time since I last saw a really good race on F1. Maybe this new series will bring back those days when we had REAL races going on, like in late 80’s, when we could hardly blink while Sena, Prost, Mansell and some other real drivers where fighting for the win. Max and Bernie should know that I, as much as most F1 fans, am not interested in watching kart races. I want to see the best cars being driven by the best drivers… and that is impossible with £30M per year.

This is quite similar to what happens in the music industry. The major labels and the copyright organizations that backs the commercial artists wants to limit the availability of the commercial music by forcing DRM on downloadable files – and maintaining a high price on downloads as well as physical releases. This has caused the non-commercial artists to break out and support modern day technology and concepts like file-sharing and encourage free distribution – while commercial labels sue single consumers for millions of dollars for illegal downloads.

In the end, the consumers decide what they prefer. For F1, I would assume that viewers would rather pay to see the big teams and the super cars, than the trademark and the forced limitations. It is all about giving the market what it wants – and Bernie and Mac will get a hard time doing this through forced limitations (even though I like the idea behind it).

Let viewers decide about limitations or now – but make sure to keep the league together as one – or everyone will be losers in the end!

Years ago, we saw the IRL (Indy Racing League) break away from USAC / CART and it just hasn't been the same since. Formula One was never intended to be 'club racing' , it is the arena for the best and the brightest. As a former FIA licence holder, capping costs, which is actually capping 'development', Formula One, under any scenario would be akin to requiring amatuers to play in the NFL.

Yes, it is an elitest sport, but... thank god for that.

Jay Wayne

The teams should have started a new competition many years ago
I sincerely hope they go through with it this time.
On the short term it might hurt, but in the long run they will be really happy, and won't understand why they have put up with the FIA and FOM for so long!

I wish them good luck, and as a fan I will definitely support the new FOTA competition!!!

I'm all for a budget cap. I don't know the issues with Max Mosely; I don't care. I don't want to see a team "buy" the championship. I don't want to see one or two teams dominate all year. I'd love to see more teams and more competitive teams. Since competition is relative, a budge cap would work well. Okay, maybe $60M is too low. How about $150M or $200M? Whatever it takes to work it out, they should work it out where they can meet their needs and still expand the sport to a more competitive series. Hell, I'm for F1 being a spec series. Maybe not the entire car; they could have a spec engine and leave chassis and aero in play. For now, budget limits would help. Max and the Defiant 8 should talk it out and work it out. The CART-IRL split was a joke and I don't want to see that in F1.

Perhaps now we'll see events where WE want to see them (read: Montreal) not at money laden venues where they can't even fill the stands.

Go FOTA!

The problem of how to manage a huge lucrative sports monopoly is not limited to open wheel racing. The "commercial rights holder" has seemed to wag the alleged international sports authority tail for years. Sports where the teams own the league bring their own chaos: just ask baseball. My rule of thumb: the less the (racing) event ticket costs the more fun I am likely to have.

60 million. So thats 30 million for the driver line-up. Bernie and Max are outside their minds if they think you can fund an F-1 team for just 30 million. Development, travel, staff, facilities, oh yeah, and the cars themselves. Maybe the cookie cutter scene of NASCAR would be more to Max and Bernie's liking. See you at Bristol, Mate

It is about time!
Eccelstone has been ripping off the public, teams, television broadcasters and local organizations way too long.

Last year I watched all the F1 races live on Speed Channel. In Hawaii that means some races start at 0200. More power to FOTA, finally in clear air. I'm with you all the way.
To Max and Bernie, "bye bye boys, have fun stormin' the castle."

Max was trying to prevent a situation where the teams with the most money establish a dynasty of championships. Not surprisingly, the teams with the most money were the ones most upset by his rules. He was trying to retain healthy competition. Instead, you are going to have another Barcelona, Madrid, Man U, Chelsea, money based sport.

My support is to the teams and the drivers. If there is a spin off, I will support that and I would like to attend in person at least one of the races. I will not follow whatever is left of the FIA championship.

However, I hope that a solution can be found. However, if that is not possible and a split does happen ... ,y support is with the FOTA teams.

This is the death for F1 idf those teams leave. IRL and CART never fully recovered from the split in the US. They are back together now but only after CART was on life support and had to come crawling back. They still don't have the fan base back, and most of their top drivers take the first chance they can get to go to NASCAR. This will happen to F1, wait it has already started with Montoya and Speed. For all involved to survive this they must compromise before disaster.

good for those teams, f1 is about having the most technologically sophisticated supercars, not crappy race cars like nascar. Hope the new leauge kicks ass.

FOTA has ready made tracks to run at all the places Bernie deemed unsuitable, meaning they would not pay him what he wanted. Don't think Indy, Canada and the other legacy tracks wouldn't be ready to go? Max/Bernie have underestimated the fans and track owners.

Come to think of it, I can't think of anyone better suited to stick it to Bernie/Max than Tony George. Maybe FOTA should use Tony George to lead the charge.

But FOTA on legacy tracks, a few new tracks and the North American markets with a little showmanship = a real hurt to F1 even if FOTA were to run fewer races.

It's a shame to see the sport break apart like this, but I think the FOTA are doing the right thing. You cannot have a two-standard race at the pinnacle of motor sport. FIA needs to learn to work with its teams for the benefit of us the consumers. If not, then let's see what the rival championship can bring instead. Hopefully the new championship will come to stadiums where people are passionate about their racing – e.g. bring back Montreal for a start, and let's have more street racing. We want more KERS please – with bigger boosts to allow more overtaking.
Go for it FOTA.

The proposed new F1 formula was going to be awful. If this move shuts down F1 with the FIA more power to them. To the knowledgeable fan F1 is always as about the cars as much as the teams. If the day comes when all F1 cars are the same like they are in Indy Car or NASCAR the sport will die. I have always believed that the Formula should be very simple: a four wheeled car, so wide and so tall. It would have an eight cylinder engine that burns alcohol of a given sized with a given induction system. After that let the cars go race and stay out of the way as much as possible. Wise up FIA.

I had met both Andy Craig and Tony George prior to the CART – IRL split (they both had solid thinking). Aside from splitting up the fan base not much else was achieved. IRL tried to become an open wheel version of NASCAR and CART became a watered down version of F1. Both Andy and Tony had valid points in their thinking but ultimately the fans made the decision with their wallets. CART died, IRL survives although apparently Danica Patrick is the only driver on the grid according to mass media outlets. I think the teams and fans could have gotten behind a “price cap” F1 if that would have translated into more affordable ticket prices. But a new FOTA series without the “Bernie + Max” overhead might actually end up being more affordable for the fans. Besides; they can quickly have a full calendar with perhaps Indy, Miller & Canada circuits itching for a race. I’d also guess there are some free weekends at all the tracks already used by F1 this year. Go FOTA … I’m sure SPEEDtv will be happy to broadcast and people like me will watch.

F1 is a joke anyhow. You would think these bozo's would have learned from the break up of Indy Cars and CART.

F1 is so pathetic anyhow......I don't understand how they can even come close to generating the capital needed to cover 1/10 of costs.

For me and millions of others, who gives a flying cluck.

BREAKUP THE F1 who cares ?

Thank god!!!! The FIA has been making me go CRAZY!!!!!!!!! Max Mosley should have been displaced with someone who actually knows what F1 is all about a long time ago.

congrats teams. For far too long have these 2 hooligans been running the sport like a total dictatorship..

Forget the stupid KERS, forget Bernie and Max and their "overhead". Let the racing begin Go FOTA..........One size engine, one basic height and width, and perhaps a few other rules and have at it.

F1 is at the height of Auto Racing and should not be treated as Bernie and Max's cash cow. If properly run, they could easily run roughshod over B&M.

Can't wait for the first race.

Maybe at Watkins Glen.....where US F1 used to be held !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!