Mosley warns of EU exodus by F1 industry
FIA president Max Mosley has repeated a warning that F1 teams could relocate out of the European Union to avoid "unnecessary legislation" such as the rules to be applied to tobacco advertising overseas, the European Arrest Warrant and the Working Time Directive. "It's not impossible that the whole industry could just decamp," said Mosley
"The teams are quite capable, together with [FOM principal] Bernie [Ecclestone], of making dramatic moves fairly quickly if they have to."
Concerns expressed at the weekend by BAR team principal David Richards [Feb 2] over the UK's new-for-2005 tobacco advertising laws followed threats by teams to boycott European races unless they were specifically exempted from the new European Arrest Warrant legislation. Mosley is also concerned by the EU's mandatory 35-hour week. He said: "This is just ludicrous. You can't run an F1 team under [laws like] that."
Mosley concluded: "There is a probability that reason will prevail. But it could also be that some country outside the EU might make a collective offer to the teams of land and facilities that is so attractive that they might move lock, stock and barrel."
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