Really?
Any new series will last about 10 years at the maximum. FOTA may show unity now but when they're controlling their own revenues, it'll be a lot less friendly.
1) Stable rules aren't necessarily a good thing. Of course, the teams at the front of the grid will love them. What about the teams at the back, though? They'll want to change the rules, and they won't be able to. So they'll leave. Brawn will be first, as they won't have the budget to compete with the $200 million-a-year budgets of Ferrari and McLaren. Renault and Toyota will have finally pulled the plug anyway, so we're down to 5 teams at that point.
2) Tracks will make a profit to begin with. However, as the management structure of the series falls apart, fewer and fewer people will attend, and the tracks will again struggle to break even.
"Less politics". Hardly. In fact, with every decision having to go through a committee of the teams, there'll be even more politics. More tantrums from teams who don't get their way. More boycotts. More rhetoric.
As a matter of fact, the split can be compared to the CART\IRL split; it may be the other way around from 13 years ago, but you still have 90% of the teams on one side and one authority figure on the other. And what happened then? CART's management structure imploded 7 years after the split, and 4 years after that one of the new owners stabbed the other two in the back and sold out to the other side.
It's going to be a nice six months while everyone's on the same side, working together to make a viable alternative. And then the cracks appear. Arguments take place. Backroom alliances are forged. And before you know it, hey presto, the same circus under a different name.
Mosely is no saint, but the system he operates is a strong one. If FOTA's real ambition is to get rid of Max, then they should have done it the traditional way and between them fielded a candidate to run against him in October. Mosely has never had to face real opposition, and would likely get toppled.
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