It doesn't look like the war of words between Max Mosley and Ferrari will end anytime soon after the retired FIA president described the Italian outfit as a "middle-aged woman who is jealous of the attention new beautiful women around her are getting".
Ferrari reignited the tit-for-tat spat earlier this week by claiming the continued struggles of USF1 and Campos Meta were the result of "the legacy of the holy war waged by Mosley".
F1 commentator and journalist James Allen was among a handful of writes who met with the 69-year-old on Wedesday and discussed the issue with him.
According to James Allen on F1, Mosley 'found the whole thing quite amusing but hinted that the team had opened a can of worms here and that he had not planned to say anything rude about them before now, but that they have fired the first shot with this attack. He described Ferrari as a middle-aged woman who is jealous of the attention new beautiful women around her are getting! He also said that the comments about Lotus and Virgin 'limping' into F1 and implying the new teams are a shambles, was rich given that Ferrari sent one of their cars out of the pits with a fuel hose attached in Singapore 2008.'
Ferrari's attack was largely aimed at the FIA's decision to accept the likes of USF1 and Campos despite their battle to secure enough funds to make the grid. A third team, Stefan GP, were labelled "Serbian Vultures".
Mosley believes USF1 and Campos might well merge, but fears Stefan GP won't make it onto the grid as Ferrari won't agree to their participation.
'On the subject of the new teams he is pleased that there is new blood in F1 and regrets the problems of USF1 and Campos,' James Allen on F1 continued. 'At the time of the assessment of new entries he insists that both places were visited regularly and financial checks carries out by Deloitte and by CVC's finance experts. As for what happens next, he thinks there will be a merger between USF1 and Campos.
'This would leave an open 13th entry, but he reminded us that for Stefan GP to get it, all the teams need to agree. I know for a fact, speaking to Ferrari this week, that they will not agree to that, as long as disgraced former McLaren designer Mike Coughlan is working for the team.'
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