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F1's battle still running… but not on track
By Stéphane Schlesinger on 28 June 2005 | 
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Max Mosley strongly recalls he is the boss and asserts he’s not been moved by remarks after Indianapolis’s fiasco. He has summoned the 7 teams using Michelin tyres to the FIA world Motorsport Council to be held on June 29, in Paris. Minardi Boss Paul Stoddart warned if the sanctions turned out to be out of proportion, the teams would boycott the Grand Prix de France next Sunday. What could sanctions be? A simple warning, a loss of points or, more likely, a series of bans. Stoddart puts the pressure on Max Mosley more particularly, accusing him of not having found a good compromise in Indianapolis. Mosley retorts he had previously prevented Stoddard from being stolen his money by other teams some time ago and that he must have forgotten to take his medication.
Besides, Mosley bears a grudge against Michelin and the teams running on their tyres: he asserts their behaviour was totally stupid and thinks the tyres were not that faulty… Eventually, in his mind, Michelin and the incriminated teams should give the Indianapolis Grand-Prix organizers a compensation they would fairly distribute to the spectators. Thus, the French tyre maker and the 7 teams could avoid severe sanctions.
Mosley wants to apply the F1 rules as fairly as possible, without any consideration of profit as he puts it. He reckons that, being the leader, his aim is not to be popular.
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