Flavio Briatore: “The beginning of a new era”

– What do you criticize the FIA, or rather Mosley, since he has always made this discipline a personal matter?
His way of managing it, of deciding the rules without going through the statutory bodies? He couldn't run a professional sport like F1 in a dictatorial way, being convinced that we would accept everything from him. With the Srec and the double-tier broadcaster, he managed to create a three-tier 2009 championship. Not to mention the investments that this required, while on the other hand, he wants to impose a reduction in the costs of F1.

– Faced with what may seem like an impasse, can we imagine a last-minute reconciliation?
Let us not give this conflict a meaning that it does not have. We are not fighting for the end of Mosley and Ecclestone but for the start of a new era of F1. Technology, entertainment, leisure, lifestyle, the best teams, the best drivers? so many things to which the FIA ​​did not want to give importance. We have shared our concerns for months, years, without success. It is not by going from sterile meeting to sterile meeting that we will move forward. Since we no longer have an interlocutor, we have taken another direction. The FIA ​​has made a matter of sport and entertainment a political matter, it has sought to divide us, in an often unbearable and recently unacceptable manner through people who had another role.

– Mosley's fear is to see manufacturers deserting F1, including Renault?
There was never any question of it, since F1 brings her what she is looking for and what she needs. Same thing for the others.

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