Who will win, and will it be the right thing for the sport if either win?

That's the question I'm asking after the various announcements by the two different parties over the last couple of days.

The FIA have decided that teams have a 1 week window (24th March - 31st March) to sign up for the 2008 season. They have also said that the GPMA have only themselves to blame for not submitting input into the 2008 season's rules.

If you would like to read the proposed rules for 2008 then have a look at this PDF but Pitpass have a nice breakdown of the significant points.

The biggest problem is, that if teams do not sign up for the 2008 season in the window allowed, then they will not be allowed any input into any rule tweaks that are needed. The kicker to all this though, to sign up to the 2008 season you will also need to sign up to the new Concorde agreement, and with that the GPMA will effectively be dead.

What will come of all this? Well we could have 3 teams (the 3 Ferrari teams) on the F1 grid in 2008, with the rest on the GPMA grid. Will this happen though? I doubt it.

With some luck the teams and the FIA will come to an agreement that will keep both sides contented.

The one major downside to the 2008 season rules? engine development will be stopped for 3 years; That's just madness, we will end up with Champcars (or even production cars like the M5) that will be ahead of the 'premier motor sport series', and I don't think the manufacturers can allow that.

Tags: F1, Cars, MotorSport, FIA, GPMA