Mad Max has finally proven that he is totally insane indeed.

The only driver that has soken out is Fernado Alonso the rest are a buch of chickens.

The reason to watch F1.... cutting edge technology and the ultimate competition. Make everything standard, and Indycar in the U.S. will be just as exciting. Why bother with a watered down F1. Max and Bernie can kill F1 by taking away it's pinnacle status.

The death of F1 brought to you by Mad Max. So the new series will be called GP1.

And this piece of work thinks standard engines in F1 is what the fans want.It's time to say good bye to Max & Bernie before they completely kill F1. The greed that killed Montreal will surely kill off other circuits.With empty grand stands, what promoter, country will pay this extortion? And Max changing the regulations every year will do no good.Come on stand up to these 2 & say where mad as hell & wont take it anymore!

This is clearly an attempt to get the manufacturers out of F1 and go back to parts suppliers and private teams using those parts. If F1 can not be used as an R&D platform then there is little reason for a manufacturer to be in F1. By taking away development of the car electronics and now the engine and transmission there is nothing in an F1 car that can really be translated to a road car. So if this goes through I'd expect that BMW, Mercedes and Toyota will leave. Ferrari might stay due to their history with the sport etc, but since they are not in the best financial health, they may call it a day too and focus on other forms of racing.

F1 is gone. Why bother? Bernie, FIA and their cronies have only been sucking as much money as they could from the circus of cards that F1 had turn into, but wait a minute: weren't the manufacturers and team owners in complicity all along? Of course! There hasn't been de facto governance in F1. Who would want to watch those stupid "KERS" (loosely translated: defilabrator on wheels") for heaven's sake? So long screaming internal combustion engines of a by-gone F1 kingdom. At least I had the pleasure of enjoying a once-great motorsport for at least the past 15 years, took my son twice to Indy and watched many races on TV together. There are plenty of other motor sport options no only in the States, Brazil, and Europe to out there to follow and not having to deal with these weird F1 characters (Bernie, Max, SOME team owners and managers, and SOME drivers) anymore! The top players (constructors and manufacturers) should have bailed out and started something on their own 8 years ago, now it is too late. RIP F1.

RIP F1

Nero fiddles whilst Rome burns. Does he not realise that F1 is now completely in the hands of Ferrari, Mercedes, Toyota, Renault and BMW? If they pull out, you've got no cars Max. You'll either have to promote all of the GP2 teams to F1 and change all the regs to suit the cars, or agree to the Big 5's demands and hand over the sport (unless you want to compensate all the circuits/governments for their investments!). Please FOTA, take our sport out of this dictatorship once and for all - you can't be worse than these grabbing old crones.

Spanking Max Mosley is to blame(50%) for the dire state F1 finds itself. Had he not tampered with the rules on a daily basis, the costs would not have escalated to this extent. Bernie has to shoulder the other 50%, for his greed in lining only his pockets. Both these senile creatures have no place in F1. Max is not a guardian of the sport, he is a destroyer of the sport out od spite.

F1 is coming off of their most exciting year yet and have great potential in gaining new fans and viewers but instead, power hungry max mosley and bernie eccelestone decide to ruin it with KERS, standardized engines, and more drama than a 15 year old girl can handle. These two are pathetic and a problem to the sport of F!, they need to go

And if the teams don't comply, they will receive a stern spanking issued by Max himself.

Further to this letter as mentioned above, the next step in ensuring the future of F1 after messing up the teams would be to turn to the supporters. According to the proposed plan to be enforced in 2014, supporters will be asked to sport clothes and accessories from a 'common supplier' which will be endorsed by the FIA (cmon people, we need to make as much money as we can without doing anythin more than writing rules into books). Unlike the options regarding technical specifications, all supporters coming to the races MUST wear FIA approved clothes and sport official merchandise as accessories (in 2015, we will announce that the same apparel cannot be worn to two different races). The list includes everything from the hair gel to the innerwear you may use at the races. The cost of the official merchandise will be subject to at least 4 million people signing up to the idea before this friday (so I can calculate my personal profits over the weekend and make changes if needed). If the number of people signing up is less than 4 million, then the FIA will continue to enforce the rule regardless, except the cost of the merchandise will be double and the supporters at the races will have to wear the official merchandise anyway. (So please dont sign up, I could use the extra buck) All supporters who wish to sign up are to do so after an initial down payment of 1000 US dollars (no cheques accepted) through the official F1 website. Next step is to ensure uniformity of the TV viewers, which I shall mention in my next letter. Yours sincerely, Maximum Money PS: Even I want to make money like Bernie.

i disagreed but since honda im coming round to this we cant lose anyone else.

yeh it doesnt sound as bad anymore since the Ferrari gods hve threatened to leave F1.

Rusty.....are you old enough to remember the 70's ?....some of the best damned actual racing in the history of the sport, and with the much of the grid running Cosworth power...........

Rather than the usual slagging of Max and the FIA think about what is being said. This letter from Max is a series of options and is not a mandatory requirement on the existing engine manufacturers (other than meeting specs, which they have to do now). I¿m the first to agree that standard issue engines across the board goes against the principles of F1 but this could be a real solution for smaller teams. And as Max says the transmission being offered stems from the majority supplier in any case. The announcement from Honda signifies how serious this situation is. Don¿t bury your heads in the sand; how long before today¿s massive costs catch up with the front runners?

it's not as bad as we imagine, i hate it too. but it will be ok.

Personally I watch F1 for the racing. As far as I see if all the teams are racing with broadly the same equipment then the racing will be more of a spectacle with the best drivers in the world racing against each other on a level playing field. I appreciate that this is not what F1 represents at the moment and the technical side is as important as the race day side, but a lot of the complaints about f1 being dull stem from the differences between the cars. F1 will never be A1GP as it represents the pinacle of motor racing and therefore will always attract the best talent! It would seem that Formula 1 as we know it may be dead, but is a more exciting spectacle waiting for us with these new rules? Let's not be too quick to write it off until we have seen what will happen.

Goodbye F1, we loved you dearly.

Yep - the teams are going to drop like flies now. Thanks a bunch Max and Bernie.

formula 1 is dead....I think A1 GP will start gaining more popularity as each team represents a country

A historical day - F1 goes back to the future. A return to the 60's/70's with a 21st century rule book. Interesting and really the only way forward from the current crisis. After most/all manufacturer teams quit, this could work out quite well for a low cost independant F1 future.

Brilliant i'd say but what about theTurbo engines?

This may not specifically force teams to use the tendered engine and transmission, but I don't expect teams to be very happy about this. A lot of technology in a F1 engine is outdated due to restrictions on new technology. Current engines are downsized with a turbocharger, variable valve timing, variable geometry inlet manifolds which are all banned in F1. I would rather see engine technology move forward rather than stagnate. If the engine's maximum speed was reduced to 15000 rpm instead of 19000 rpm, then they would last a longer with considerable cost saving.

The death knell of F1. Honda may not be the last team pulling out of the series yet. Hooray - a manufacturers series sooner than we hoped, with no poison dwarf or mad max. Decent looking cars, consistent rules, professional stewards, a return to decent tracks and the wall of champions - it's gonna be so sweet