Ross Brawn says Formula 1 must ensure it learns the lessons of the budget cap row once it emerges from the current saga to prevent another crisis engulfing the sport in the future.
Although the FIA and FOTA still appear no closer to a resolution over the 2010 regulations ahead of Friday’s deadline for five teams to drop their conditions for entering next year’s championship, the Brawn GP owner – whose team is one of those entered provisionally – remains optimistic a solution will be found.
But once a peace deal is reached, Brawn believes all parties will have to reflect on how the situation reached this stage in the first place.
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“I think all of us, and I mean this collectively, have got ourselves into a situation we need to learn from,” he said.
“I think with the departure of Honda, everybody was shocked by that, everyone was aware of the difficulties that the manufacturers were going through and the general economic crisis, and there was a lot of reaction at the end of last year and early this year, both from the teams and from the governing body.
“I think some of that reaction from all sides, possibly, was outside of the principles which followed before.”
Brawn believes the onset of the worldwide economic crisis in the second half of last year was ill-timed for the sport given that the Concorde Agreement had expired by the end of the previous year, meaning the FIA was not obliged to run new regulations through the Formula 1 Commission, which comprised all the sport’s stakeholders, first.
“If there hadn’t been an economic crisis all of this wouldn’t have happened and the fact the Concorde Agreement wasn’t there wouldn’t have exposed this situation in this way.
“Everything coming together at a certain time has created this situation and we need to learn from it.
“I think there are still the opportunities this week to resolve the issues and if the issues are resolved then we would be happy to enter.
“I hope it will be resolved this week – although I’m not sure it will mean we are out of business by the end of the week. I don’t think it’s at that level.”
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