FOTA’S F1 FUTURE, CRYSTAL BALL OR 8 BALL ?

The long awaited FOTA statement was finally released on 5th of March detailing technical, commercial and regulations that have been agreed and will be implemented into future seasons of Formula 1 racing.   While it is encouraging to see all team principals participating and agreeing to cement their vision of the future of the sport, the current economic situation and the unsustainable use of resources provided have now forced their hands on the teams to agree to many technical regulation changes.  Most of which involve homologating and producing long life or single make components; thus reducing the fascination of and image of technical advancement of Formula 1 racing.   This however does indeed take Formula 1 back to its roots before regulations of major components being required to self manufactured became applicable.  However, it does not go as far back as off the shelf chassis as was the controversies over the last few years with the so-called customer cars.  This does indeed cut down costs associated with the running of the cars however I don’t believe the cost cutting measures have gone far enough.