For all the alleged peace and love and good hope for the future nonsense that has followed all the existing F1 teams posting their entries for 2010 and beyond, I'm still not hopeful for the future of F1.Why?
Look at the World Rally Championship.
Specifically, look at the manufacturer championship table. It features:
- Citroen Total World Rally Team
- BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
- Stobart VK M-sport Ford Rally Team
- Citroen Junior Rally Team
- Munchi's Ford World Rally Team
It's a sad imitation of what it used to be.
Recall that when Mosley arrived on the scene, we had such heavyweights as Subaru, Mitsubishi, and Peugeot. We had second-liners like Skoda and Hyundai. Toyota was about to finish their involvement, but was still there.
The one thing I'll give Mosley credit for -- even if it wasn't directly any of his doing -- for North American viewers, we went through a golden age of coverage. For each of the three days of the event, we got a one hour same-day broadcast showing highlights, usually at a humane hour -- 4PM or 5PM broadcasts were not unheard of. Unfortunately the typical North American race viewer likes his "roundy-rounds" and the WRC programming didn't do very well in the ratings, and Speed discontinued that level of coverage after a year or two.
But now look at where the WRC is. Losing clasic events to a "non-sanctioned" championship and being unable to attract any kind of depth to their events.
This is what Mosley got the WRC.
And now he's "helping" Formula 1.
