Mosley: New Entries are Vital to Formula 1

FIA president Max Mosley made it very clear that the ruling body will keep pushing for new entries in the Formula One Championship, as this is one of the very essence of the sport. According to the 69-year old Englishman, having “new blood” in the series every once in a while is a sine-qua-non element for the growing of the sport.

Mosley argued his comments by the fact that all of the present championship “big guns” started their F1 campaigns the same way, after previously setting a small operation.

“No sport is healthy without new people coming in. Ferrari forget that the current BMW team started as Sauber, the current Williams team started with Williams buying a March. Tyrrell started a little team at the end of the sixties that was Honda and is now Brawn. Even Enzo Ferrari himself came along in 1948 and started from nothing,” said Mosley in an interview with Deutsche Presse Agentur.

Mosley's comments come less than 2 weeks after Ferrari mocked, via a press release, the new teams lodging an F1 entry in 2010. Referring to those new entries, the Italian Scuderia even suggested Mosley should change the “Formula One” designation into “Formula GP3” – probably referring to submitting team Campos Racing, former GP2 outfit and currently running Spanish F3 operations.

“If you stopped those new entrepreneurs coming in formula one will die. You can't have just a lot of old men running it,” insisted Mosley.

The FIA is to announce the complete entry list of the 2010 Formula One Championship during the course of this month, probably after the ruling body reaches a compromise with the Formula One Teams Association on the 2010 budget cap rules.