Ivone Pinton, the Durango GP2 team`s bossA GP2 team co-owner has rubbished Max Mosley`s proposal to make the series a sort of second division for formula one.
The FIA president said last week that, each year, F1`s bottom team or two could be demoted to GP2, making way for GP2`s stand outs to find a spot on the grid.
But Ivone Pinton, the Durango GP2 team`s boss, told La Gazzetta dello Sport that the promotion-relegation scheme will simply not work.
« You can spend about 4 million euro for one season in GP2 » he told the Italian newspaper, « so who can find the missing money to go up to 100m euro for F1 in a few months time ? »
Even if the bank balance could be bolstered, Pinton added, the other problems would be increasing staff numbers, building a wind tunnel, and changing the `structure` of a small team.
GP2 organiser Bruno Michel said on Monday that the 2006 grid - with well known names like Timo Glock, Gianmaria Bruni, Nelson Piquet and Lewis Hamilton - shows that the series is the `only true stepping stone` to F1.
« I am sure that this season will pick up where 2005 left off, » he said, « with the cream ... fighting it out to be GP2 champion on their way to bright futures in formula one. »
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