Briatore: Teams feel abandoned

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RENAULT

Tuesday 29th July 2008

Renault team boss Flavio Briatore believes teams should have a bigger say in how Formula One is being run.

The team principals of all F1 teams are gathering at Ferrari's headquarters in Maranello to respond to the FIA's demand for proposals for new regulations.

Earlier this month FIA President Max Mosley wrote to the teams asking them to submit their own proposals for new rules aimed at cutting costs and improving racing.

Briatore believes F1 is hurting due to Mosley focusing on his personal problems, and highlighted the costs and the number of races as issues that should be addressed.

"His absence is felt as there's no project for F1. The teams feel abandoned," Briatore told Gazzetta dello Sport.

"The Concorde agreement, the number of races, the costs, the spectacle, the imperative increase of revenues. Formula One needs to be redesigned.

"I feel that it should be down to the teams to decide, by electing in turns a director of operations. A guy who does things, not a PR person."

Responding to questions about Fernando Alonso's future and the World Championship, the 58-year-old said he expects Alonso will stay put at Renault and tipped Kimi Raikkonen to walk away with the title.

"I think he'll stay. He is racing really well, he has missed out on many points. We have less than we deserve," he said.

"For the World Championship? It's pointing to Raikkonen."