There is absolutely no doubt that the biggest existential challenge facing the traditional motor industry - and, by extension, the motorsport industry - is the advent of autonomous vehicles, which are by definition designed to eliminate, or at the very least reduce, driver input.
In the past, motorsport has been threatened by external factors and crises, which it generally overcame through adaptive resilience.
The arrival of autonomous vehicles, though, takes the challenge facing the entire sport - and, by implication, its governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, which oversees both automotive mobility and sport - to a completely different level, so disruptive will autonomous cars be.