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Hold the front page - "teams cannot agree" . They cannot even agree on what time of the day it is , hardly ever could , and certainly will not in the future. The fact that teams have so much leverage in deciding the rules of the 'sport' is undermined by the fact that any one of the big hitters can walk away , at any time, without a backward glance and with zero consequences apart from a big redundancy bill . The list is a long one, and includes Mercedes , Honda , Toyota , Renault , Alfa Romeo, Jaguar , Aston Martin, Maserati and Porsche ; and that is before we get on to engine suppliers ..
But when Mercedes went walkabout in 1955 , it had enjoyed no real influence on the rules . But we need now, more than ever before , to have a strong governing body which sets the rules , and , if you don't like 'em, because they favour team A more than B , then tough.
The absurd levels of self importance in F1 ,the tunnel vision , the delusion that F1 is not part of a wider sport , but a sport in its own right , and the budgets which looked crass in 2019 , but obscene now , need to be consigned to history.
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