Mosley: F1 needs new teams

FIA president hits back at Ferrari claims

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Mosley: F1 needs new teams

Mosley: Claims F1 needs new teams if it is to survive

Even Enzo Ferrari himself came along in 1948 and started from nothing. If you stopped those new entrepreneurs coming in, Formula 1 will die.

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FIA president Max Mosley has once again hit back at Ferrari's claims that the new teams who want to join F1 next season are not up to standard.

Ferrari, as well as Renault team boss Flavio Briatore, have blasted the quality of teams - with the Italians sarcastically suggesting that "it be more appropriate to call it Formula GP3?" if the likes of Wirth Research, Lola and USF1 sign up.

Mosley, though, is having none of it, warning that Formula One will die if new entrepreneurs don't enter the sport.

"No sport is healthy without new people coming in," Mosley told Germany's Deutsche Presse Agentur.

"Ferrari forget that the current BMW team started as Sauber, the current Williams team started with Williams buying March, [and] 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. If you stopped those new entrepreneurs coming in, Formula 1 will die. You can't have just a lot of old men running it."

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