'Fireworks' expected at F1 meeting this week

McLaren boss Zak Brown has claimed that he expects 'fireworks' in this Thursday's Liberty Media and Formula One meeting in which time will be spent discussing the future of the sport, financial income distribution among the teams, and engine regulations.

Roger Benoit, the veteran correspondent for the Swiss newspaper Blick, revealed the agenda of the meeting in the publication this week. Brown, upon hearing of the topics to be discussed at the meeting, is quoted as saying "I expect fireworks."

Benoit revealed other things to be discussed at the meeting, each of them controversial among teams and fans alike. The digital ticker on the newly introduced halo device is on the agenda, as is the potential alteration of the grid format at the start of races.

The journalist has expressed concerns over the way F1 is reported on in recent years, but revealed that the FIA has set up a new media working group 'to make coverage better'.

Benoit went on to criticise Brown for his alleged attempted monopolisation of media sites which report on F1, insisting that a diverse range of opinions was important in the reporting of the sport.

"How is that going to happen when Zak Brown and his billion-dollar partners on the internet hunt all sorts of motor sport sites and agencies to buy?" Benoit said in regards to the FIA's new media working group.

He thinks that a media monopoly is "politically very dangerous" for F1. "The FIA should speak a word of power and not sit idly by," he continued.