No money at all for the manufacturers
Max Mosley has moved to intensify the controversy surrounding his claim that carmakers should receive `no income` in F1.
The FIA President told the BBC on Monday that his suggestion to take the carmakers` revenue away and give it to poorer private teams was `quite logical`, because they need it more.

English-born Mosley, 65, also said he had advised commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone about his suggestion, and that the F1 supremo was currently `thinking about it`.

Would such a proposal push apart Formula One and the GPMA? "I don`t think so as the rules (that we want to introduce in 2008) will save the manufacturers a 100 million euros each which is far more money that they were hoping to get from Ecclestone."

The carmakers` disgruntled GPMA group had responded to Mosley`s initial comments with `surprise`, warning that the governing body was not entitled to interfere in the commercial running of the sport.

But Max retorted: "That doesn`t stop us from saying ... that the people who have a great deal of money should get less and the people who have less money should get more."

Mosley also revealed that he thought three of the five carmakers were close to agreeing a 2008 Concorde deal with Ecclestone, while the other two `are still arguing`.

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