08/10/2005
NEWS STORY
Minardi boss Paul Stoddart, who leaves F1 at the end of the season, having sold the Italian team to Red Bull, has warned that Formula One is heading towards a split that will end the sport as we know it, unless the manufacturers and teams can get those that run the sport - Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA, not to mention the Banks - to agree to new proposals regarding the governance of the sport.
"I think we are heading now, sadly, towards two series," he told reporters at Suzuka. "The manufacturers have made a very clear statement that they want a fair and equitable Formula One which they feel that there currently is not.
"I think that's going to give rise to the two championships which everybody fears but I can't see Max Mosley backing down and equally I can't see the manufacturers backing down.
"I suppose the net result of that is there will be, most likely, two series in 2008," he added.