Jean Todt has accused big team bosses of being two faced in their call for the sport's governing body and Bernie Ecclestone's FOM to rewrite the Formula 1 rules, instead the FIA President suggests that Ross Brawn should be mandated to devise the specification for a a future F1 car.
"Maybe you need an independent, someone that isn’t currently involved, somebody like a Ross Brawn, who understands the business and understands the challenges to write the specification for what a [F1] car should be," Todt told reporters recently.
"I am quite happy to sit with Bernie [Ecclestone] and to decide what could be good for the sport, but again we need to be sure that it is good for the sport. But believe me; those who claim that they should be involved and that it should be FIA and the commercial rights holder to decide, they will be the first to shout and saying: they are not following the right governance [procedures]. They did not consult us."
"If they keep saying that it should be us to decide, then I should ask for an official mandate. I will have that in writing. So okay, if they want it, give us an official mandate and then we will see how they react. It is a lot of talking."
“The Strategy Group at the moment is fairly inept and I keep saying it needs the commercial rights holder and the governing body to decide what they want Formula 1 to be and then put it on the table to the teams and say: this is what we want the product to be, these are the rules, there is the entry form."
"If somebody says to me that a good prescription is to get rid of these engines, I don't agree. I agree that they're too expensive, but it was the right thing to have these engines. You will remember the first proposal, which I accepted, was for four cylinders, was a big mess [which they said] we don't want four cylinders."
"Who won Le Mans? Porsche. What engine did they have? Four cylinders. Nobody could argue Porsche is not a good brand or not a sports brand. I think we should communicate more about that. Here, we all have a responsibility to inform: my people, myself, the competitors, the media. We should all work as a team because motorsport is not only the teams, it's all of you," declared the Frenchman.
"I think the engine is a great evolution, but too expensive. Now, everybody says: we don't like the racing because it's fuel consumption, it's brakes and it is tyres."
"The first year I was the boss of a team in F1 was 1993 and we had problems with brakes, we had the problem of tyre wear and the problem of being careful with the fuel. So it's not something that has just come in, but does it mean we should not consider it?"
"If the answer was [to] give an allocation of 5kg more fuel, I don't have any problem. But at the moment, if you ask some bitter drivers if they are happy, they will say no. If you have a sincere discussion, why is that guy not happy, it's because he is not winning," concluded Todt.
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