Lights Out: Liberty's 2021 vision dominates Bahrain build-up

Lights Out: Liberty's 2021 vision dominates Bahrain build-up

Originally written by Joas van Wingerden. This version is a translation.

Saturday 7 April 2018 10:00

After much speculation and gossip, Liberty Media finally lifted the curtain on their "vision" for the future of Formula 1. As expected, it hasn't exactly gone down swimmingly with the bigger boys of the sport. Are those quit threats coming back? It's lights out for Saturday morning!

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Our scribe Rob Watts took one look at the proposals and was left with more questions than answers.

How can Liberty hope to keep everyone happy? Rob has a go at explaining all that here.

Ferrari have issued numerous threats to leave F1 over these plans, but the first dissenting voice came from the Mercedes garage.

Silver Arrows boss Toto Wolff took particular exception to a $150million budget cap.

Not everyone was do downbeat, though, one team principal said the plans meant it was time to "crack open the champagne"!

A full run-thorugh of the bosses' thoughts is here.

The new rules could already have attracted a new name to F1, however. Well... kind of.

Red Bull's title sponsor, Aston Martin, took one look at the plans and said : "That's a bit of us."

And last but not least, the actual action on the track. Y'know, the reason we're all here...

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