The war between FIA president Max Mosley and FOTA, the association of Formula One teams, has been a long time coming and the current impasse can only be damaging for the sport.
Although FOTA has made some serious inroads into cost-cutting, Mosley, some would say, has continually belittled its efforts while taking credit for reductions in spending thus far this season.
It has always been his style to operate a dictatorship, partly due to his little-disguised disdain for many of the team principals.
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But where commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has operated a benign dictatorship - which fundamentally has the sport’s best interests at heart even if his own are also well catered for - Mosley has often been accused of being intransigent for the sake of it.
It is deeply ironic that Mosley’s principal enemy is Luca di Montezemolo, the charismatic chief of Ferrari, for the Scuderia was once seen as the FIA’s favoured team.
Now, however, the two heavyweights are at loggerheads as the vexed question of cost reduction continues to prove a stumbling block.
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