Showdown: Todt, Ecclestone and Mosley vs Marchionne

 

Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes connects the dots of F1's staggering latest power struggle Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Dear Moli, Last week the World Motor Sport Council issued an extraordinary change to F1’s governance procedure, empowering Jean Todt and Bernie Ecclestone to over-rule, if necessary, decisions reached by the existing governance. Essentially, they could ignore the earlier voting down by the F1 Commission of Ecclestone’s proposed cheaper independent ‘client’ engine, the instrument with which Ecclestone hopes to bust the hybrid engine manufacturers’ hold on F1. This hold increased dramatically with the advent of the hybrid engine formula in 2014, the big increase in costs that followed and the competitive spread resulting in the factory Mercedes team’s domination. The WMSC decision is the latest in a long-running power play and just the visible part of the iceberg. Many apparently unconnected events are only so on the surface and in reality are all part of the same game... Click here to read the full feature >

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