Formula 1’s rules shouldn’t be decided by the teams according to Red Bull’s Christian Horner who has called for an ‘independent observer’ to tackle the tough task of directing F1’s future.
At present, a group made up of six teams, the FIA and the commercial rights holder – aka Bernie Ecclestone – decide on how the sport should be ruled and what direction it should take.
At a recent Strategy Group meeting, it was decided that refuelling should return alongside quicker cars. The first point looks set to be dropped whilst no concrete ways of making the cars “five to six seconds per lap faster” have been presented.
Horner therefore believes the group must be scrapped in favour of an independent observer, someone who can create rules without favouring one particular team and the Briton already has someone in mind.
“I think the Strategy Group is fairly inept,” he said on Monday.
“I keep saying it and I will repeat it again now: It is the commercial rights holder and the governing body to decide what F1 should be and then put it on the table to the teams and say ‘this is what we want the product to be, these are the rules, this is the entry form’.
“Maybe you need an independent observer, someone not involved? Someone like Ross Brawn that understands the challenges and knows the business to write a specification for what a car or technical regulations should be,” he suggested.
Horner isn’t the only team boss to call for the Strategy Group to be disbanded. Force India’s Bob Fernley and Toro Rosso’s Franz Tost both agree, as does Ecclestone.
