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Originally Posted by ascarracinguk
I’ve always wondered this. Where does F1 go next? Bin the manufacturers and get specialist racing engines giving petrol heads what they want or follow manufacturers and go fully electric
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Although Liberty/Malone own a small stake in FE, I blieve that Agag cleverly got agreement from the FIA that FE would be the only full elctric single seater FIA world championship series. In theory Liberty would have to buy FE in order to make F1 full electric.
Been an interesting year for FOM and their investors have they have seen how vulnerable F1 is global conditions, not owning any circuits themselves and now manufacturers pulling out leaving teams without engines.
I have always said that FOM/Liberty will never make the return on F1 that BE/CVC did and I still believe that. In order to protect their investment...
They should go back to companies that were looking at developing engine and see what can be developed as a stock F1 engine in the realisation that no other car manufacturer is going to build an ICE F1 engine now.
Buy their own circuit so they will always have a base for races/testing and where they could develop an European F1 experience - Liberty are in the entertainment inudstry aren't they - and then you would have a tangible asset, not just a load of contracts that as this year shoed, can be proved to be worthless.