Ferrari hit out at 'holy war' waged by Mosley

Ferrari have launched another astonishing attack on the FIA over some of the new teams that have been given entries into this year's Championship.

The Italian marque slammed motorsport's governing body last year over the quality of teams that were handed slots on the 2010 grid.

A report on the team's website at the time read: 'Can a world championship with teams like them - with due respect - have the same value as today's Formula One, where Ferrari, the big car manufacturers and teams, who created the history of this sport, compete? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it Formula GP3?'

Now the Scuderia are at it again, this time it's taking issue with Campos Meta, USF1 and Stefan GP. Campos and USF1 have entries into this year's Championship, but are struggling to come up with funds to make the grid while the Serbian outfit have appeared out of nowhere.

A column 'the Horse Whisperer' on the website read: 'Of the thirteen teams who signed up, or were induced to sign up, for this year's Championship, to date only eleven of them have heeded the call, turning up on track, some later than others, and while some have managed just a few hundred kilometres, others have done more, but at a much reduced pace.

'As for the twelfth team, Campos Meta, its shareholder and management structure has been transformed, according to rumours which have reached the Horse Whisperer through the paddock telegraph, with a sudden cash injection from a munificent white knight, well used to this sort of last minute rescue deal. However, the beneficiaries of this generosity might find the knight in question expects them to fulfil the role of loyal vassal. All this means, it is hard to imagine the Dallara designed car showing its face at the Catalunya Circuit, with Sakhir a more likely venue to witness the return of the Senna name to a Formula 1 session.

'The thirteenth team, USF1, appears to have gone into hiding in Charlotte, North Carolina, to the dismay of those like the Argentinian, Lopez, who thought he had found his way into the Formula 1 paddock, (albeit with help from chairwoman Kirchner, according to the rumours) and now has to start all over again. Amazingly, they still have the impudence to claim that everything is hunky-dory under the starry stripy sky.'

Serbian outfit Sefan Grand Prix also came under attack.

'Next, we have the Serbian vultures. Firstly, they launched themselves into a quixotic legal battle with the FIA, then they picked the bones of Toyota on its death bed.

'Having got some people on board, around whom there was still a whiff of past scandals [Mike Coughlan - the man at the centre of Spygate has been hired by the team], they are now hovering around waiting to replace whoever is first to drop out of the game.

'This is the legacy of the holy war waged by the former FIA president. The cause in question was to allow smaller teams to get into Formula 1. This is the outcome: two teams will limp into the start of the championship, a third is being pushed into the ring by an invisible hand - you can be sure it is not the hand of Adam Smith - and, as for the fourth, well, you would do better to call on Missing Persons to locate it. In the meantime, we have lost two constructors along the way, in the shape of BMW and Toyota, while at Renault, there's not much left other than the name. Was it all worth it?'

Ferrari hit out at 'holy war' waged by Mosley - Planet-F1 News from planet-f1.com

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Mosley: Ferrari like a jealous middle-aged woman



It doesn't look like the war of words between Max Mosley and Ferrari will end anytime soon after the retired FIA president described the Italian outfit as a "middle-aged woman who is jealous of the attention new beautiful women around her are getting".

Ferrari re-ignated the tit-for-tat spat earlier this week by claiming the continued struggles of USF1 and Campos Meta were the result of "the legacy of the holy war waged by Mosley".

F1 commentator and journalist James Allen was among a handful of writes who met with the 69-year-old on Wedesday and discussed the issue with him.

According to James Allen on F1, Mosley 'found the whole thing quite amusing but hinted that the team had opened a can of worms here and that he had not planned to say anything rude about them before now, but that they have fired the first shot with this attack. He described Ferrari as a middle-aged woman who is jealous of the attention new beautiful women around her are getting! He also said that the comments about Lotus and Virgin 'limping' into F1 and implying the new teams are a shambles, was rich given that Ferrari sent one of their cars out of the pits with a fuel hose attached in Singapore 2008.'

Ferrari's attack was largely aimed at the FIA's decision to accept the likes of USF1 and Campos despite their battle to secure enough funds to make the grid. A third team, Stefan GP, were labelled "Serbian Vultures".

Mosley believes USF1 and Campos might well merge, but fears Stefan GP won't make it onto the grid as Ferrari won't agree to their participation.

'On the subject of the new teams he is pleased that there is new blood in F1 and regrets the problems of USF1 and Campos,' James Allen on F1 continued. 'At the time of the assessment of new entries he insists that both places were visited regularly and financial checks carries out by Deloitte and by CVC's finance experts. As for what happens next, he thinks there will be a merger between USF1 and Campos.

'This would leave an open 13th entry, but he reminded us that for Stefan GP to get it, all the teams need to agree. I know for a fact, speaking to Ferrari this week, that they will not agree to that, as long as disgraced former McLaren designer Mike Coughlan is working for the team.'

Mosley: Ferrari like a jealous middle-aged woman - Planet-F1 News from planet-f1.com

lol , ferrari has a point though whats the use of letting in teams that cant even field a car on the grid or keep pace