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I guess its at times like this that the cold realisation at Liberty (and their shareholders) is that what they have actually bought of F1 - they don't own the circuits, the teams or the cars - without all of those they have no product...
Also bear in the mind that if what is reported is right - the FIA can effectively cancel the race unilaterally without any comeback if F1 cannot provide 12 cars for the race - which I believe is what effectively happened in Melbourne. So the rights holder (FOM) could have the race taken away from them by a majority of the teams pulling out of the race - even if FOM wanted to run it, the FIA can over rule as the ultimate owner of F1.
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