Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt Should Consider These Recommendations to Fix F1

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Published: December 4, 2015

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Formula One has some issues at the moment. From back-to-back runaway championships for Mercedes to teams on the edge of bankruptcy to declining television viewership figures, most observers can agree that changes need to be made—in some cases, drastic, in others, just minor tweaks.

And, as everyone knows, when an organisation has a problem, the best people to fix it are the ones who got it into the problem in the first place, right? At least, that's what the FIA World Motor Sport Council seems to think, as it appointed F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone and FIA president Jean Todt to come up with potential solutions.

If you dig the hole deep enough, eventually you will pop out the other side. I think that's how it works.

Anyway, the dynamic duo of Ecclestone and Todt (if you are reading this out loud, please use a sarcastic tone of voice for that phrase) are supposed to provide their recommendations by the end of January 2016. With the Christmas holidays approaching, that doesn't leave them with much time.

Luckily, we have a few suggestions to get them started.

The first problem that needs to be dealt with is the Strategy Group. The group is now effectively the rule-making body for F1 and includes representatives from the FIA (ostensibly the sport's governing body), the commercial rights holder (Ecclestone) and six teams.

It is ridiculous that some teams—mostly just the big, rich ones—get to provide input and vote on the sport's regulations, while the smaller teams are marginalised. In the Friday press conference in Abu Dhabi, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner and Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams mistakenly referred to the Strategy Group as "democratic."

Apparently Williams has a degree in politics, according to this interview with the Independent's Charlie Cooper, but she must have missed the lecture where they covered oligarchies.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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