In his 30-odd years of F1 competition, Williams co-owner Patrick Head has weathered many storms. But right now, he has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp (what's new there?). He does not suffer fools, and he makes no attempt to hide his frustration. "The first thing we need to do is set out one set of rules for everybody," he says over the looming threat of a two-tier championship, reaching for a comforting slice of sticky chocolate brownie in the Williams motorhome. "It's a crazy situation and no one can do any serious planning in these conditions."
Today is the deadline for entries into the 2010 Formula One World Championship. Ordinarily teams like Ferrari, Renault and Williams would register at the end of the season in November. But not this year, for the FIA are encouraging new teams to fill the 12 available grid slots and several manufacturers, Ferrari and Renault included, have said they may quit F1 over disagreements regarding next year's £40 million budget cap rule and the FIA's dictatorial style of governance.
The only team so far to have lodged their entry, much to the anger of the teams association FOTA, is Williams. Williams have stated that, as a pure racing team with a contract to participate until the end of 2012, their entry was "unquestionable".
I spoke exclusively with Patrick between FOTA and FIA meetings in Monaco.
"It's an absolute mess," states Patrick, 63, with typical bluntness. "At the moment we have an unhappy situation where the manufacturers are being told 'no development, homologation on your engine, 18,000RPM maximum. Whereas teams who want to come in under a budget cap are being told 'unlimited development, change the engine as often as you want.'"
Williams, an independent team, have been supportive of a budget cap throughout. But when asked about new teams from junior categories making the step-up to F1, Head is pragmatic: "To take nothing away from teams that are, say, in GP2, you've got to remember they're buying their car, they're not allowed to make a washer or a bolt. They run the cars extremely well, for 3 million euros a year. But to go from that to researching, designing, building and running an F1 car on a much bigger budget - and don't forget the £40 million cap does not include driver salaries, engines, marketing etc - is a big, big step.
This week Williams were suspended from FOTA for committing to 2010, a move that was executed by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo. "I can understand why Ferrari is upset, as they can very easily raise a couple of hundred million euros. So suddenly being told they can only spend 60 million on F1 is not what they want," explains Patrick.
"I'm not saying it's easy to come up with rules that will benefit the long term future of F1, it isn't. But doing it in this confrontational way is never going to be successful."
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With fewer regulatory limitations being offered to budget-capped teams, will we see six-wheeled turbo-charged cars again like we did in the 1970s? "Sometimes it seems Max wants to turn the clock back to then," agrees Patrick Head, "but I think the racing was worse then than it is now. We've done active ride, we've done ground effect with sliding skirts and all that sort of thing. One could go back to doing that - it would make for much more efficient cars, but at the same time they're desperately trying to slow the cars down. So you say, 'well ok we can turn the engines down to 400 horsepower', but don't expect to see them slide around anymore or lay lines of black rubber on the track."
And what of the exciting new 'green' technologies that the FIA has been championing? Patrick isn't convinced the teams can afford it. "It's important to understand that something like thermal energy recovery, which is being talked about, is not cheap. Anything that has more energy storage or more power costs a lot to develop. You can't do those sorts of things within a £40 million budget cap."
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