Team bosses have had yet another meeting in Mexico
Source: Red Bull Content Pool
F1 News
- Nicolás Quarles van Ufford
The team principals from all F1 teams on the grid have come together in Austin and Suzuka to discuss urgent matters, and reports have come out that all the bosses had yet another meeting in Mexico City ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix.
It's not a Strategy Group meeting or anything like that as no member of the FIA was present, it's simply a get-together of all team principals to talk about things like the new regulations in 2021, the planned budget cap for each team and general topics like making the F1 a more attractive sport for the fans.
"There were some healthy discussions today and it was one of the better meetings," Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff told Motorsport-Total.
His colleagues agreed, with Force India boss Otmar Szafnauer underlining that the sport has to be more about the fans.
"It's important that the spectacle returns for the fans," he explained.
"We have to show the roots of racing. It can't be fake."
Not everyone is as positive about the meetings, however. Red Bull's Christian Horner is sceptical about the use of the meetings, as he thinks that the team bosses won't be genuine to each other. After all, F1 is a competition, he argues.
"On the outside, we're all nice to each other, but at the end of the day F1 is a competition.
"We all try to out-smart each other with the car, employees sponsors et cetera.
"It's up to Liberty Media to give us a set of rules which we have to hold ourselves to."
Very contrasting opinions coming out of the meeting. Maybe the FIA should have been present there as a mediator?