Oh, grow up!

Formula 1 has (pretty much) always been about egos, money and everyone trying to gain an upper hand for their own petty gain.

This year all the teams joined together and formed FOTA. The Formula One Teams Association, under the pretext that they would all play nicely together, be great mates, and fight the evil establishment of the FIA and Bernie -BOOOOOOO!

"We're going to play nicely" they all said. "We're not going to throw any toys, and we're looking forward to sticking it up the bad guys and going for a pizza with our mates afterwards". (I may have paraphrased a little there, but you understand the gist).

So, we go to Australia for the first race and the first thing that happens is that all these 'mates' start complaining about each other. "You've got a double-diffuser, I WAN'T ONE, WHY CAN'T I HAVE ONE! IF I DON'T GET IT I'M GONNA CRY AND SAY IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!!".

Well, the people that run the sport say it's perfectly within the rules - OK, it may be an interpretation of the new rules rather than how they were actually intended, but the ruling was that they are legal, so end of story, but still some complained.

Now, let us get back to the 'grow up' point of this posting - FOTA have suspended Williams F1 from their little group because they had the audacity to sign themselves up to F1 for next year (as the FIA process says they must in order to guarantee a place on the grid).

Let's look at who Williams F1 are - and it's pretty simple as I'm sure you can see. They are there to build and race an F1 car. That is what they do. They do not sell road cars, they race F1 (and a few other bits and bobs from time to time). So, if they don't stay with F1, they probably don't stay in business.

What were they supposed to do FOTA? Eh?

As already mentioned, FOTA includes 'Formula One' in it's title - so one of your members wants to stay in F1 and you suspend them? You can't use 'Formula One' in your title when you are not part of it, so think about that, and dread the day (if it comes) when you set up you're little manufacturers series to try and compete, because we all know you won't be able to.

How good would a racing series be for Williams if it was run by Ferrari or Renault or Toyota, etc ??? No damned good at all.