Why did Todt put cheap engine vote to Strategy group?

[John S]

He knows Ferrari's veto, why propose it if no agreement 1st? 

He not only pushed cheap engine vote in the Strategy group he then let the whole world know Ferrari had vetoed it - why?????? 

Just what agenda is devious Todt working to, he certainly knows about Ferrari's veto as he is the last one to invoke it, and we thought it was only Bernie who sought to embarrass and bully any adversary in F1.    What's his endgame do we think? 

 

[Jericoke]

Just  a guess... Ferrari's hand has been forced here.  Now that they're on public record as standing in the way of F1 teams competing fairly, there's room to put pressure on FCA to play fair.  Like Mercedes and Renault, they answer to a board of directors and shareholders and a public who buys their cars.

[Scott]

Just  a guess... Ferrari's hand has been forced here.  Now that they're on public record as standing in the way of F1 teams competing fairly, there's room to put pressure on FCA to play fair.  Like Mercedes and Renault, they answer to a board of directors and shareholders and a public who buys their cars.

That's a good point.  I wouldn't want to give Todt the credit, but it would be an interesting strategy.

[Alianora La Canta]

I think Jean has an ulterior motive - to try to get Ferrari's veto removed or neutered in some way. He won't succeed, and should probably have asked Max how his effort at doing so went.

Ferrari most likely regards itself as standing in the way of the FIA triggering multiple breaches of contract, for the FIA is not allowed to interfere in commercial matters (that Nice Agreement again). So if the FIA had got its way, then each and every engine manufacturer would have been entitled to quit, because their costs for the snazzy engines the FIA insisted upon were amortized between 2014-2020. Changing this after the event, by an organisation that is forbidden to interfere with commercial matters, would result in the entire sport being at the engine manufacturers' mercy. A series with no engines would not work. So Ferrari probably thinks itself the hero of the piece, and will explain itself to those who question it accordingly, regardless of how the FIA chooses to dress up the matter.

[Irisado]

The irony of all this being that it was Todt who arranged Ferrari's power of veto with the FIA in the first place.