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Horner: Liberty Need to "put it on the table"

09:25, 03 Apr 2018

byJake Williams-Smith

Liberty Media is set to unveil their blueprint for Formula One in Bahrain next weekend.

Christian Horner has reasserted his stance that Liberty Media need to give teams the opportunity to walk away from the sport should they be dissatisfied with Liberty's future plans.

Bahrain will be a hugely important weekend as Liberty will unveil their plans for the sport past the current Concorde Agreement, with costs and rules of the sport at the forefront of discussions.

Whilst talks of a budget cap have led to Ferrari threatening to pull out of the sport altogether, and Mercedes position meaning they could easily walk away also, Formula One is in one of its most critical periods.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes that it will be impossible to please every team up and down the pitlane and that those who are unhappy, have the right to leave.

“Trying to get a consensus between teams that have got varying objectives, different set-ups, is going to be impossible,” said Horner.

“So it’s down to the commercial rights holder and the FIA to get together, come up with a set of regulations – what is the financial framework, what is the distribution that they want to have – put it on the table and it’s down to the teams whether they want to sign up to that or not.

“Of course there will be a lot of positioning, the media will be used, it’s history repeating itself and it happens every five or six years, every time the Concorde Agreement comes up for renewal.

“But my feeling is, Liberty, together with FIA, need to get on the same piece of paper to say this is what we want Formula One to be, this is the financial distribution surrounding it, here’s the deal and laid out to the teams.”