Stakes are high in F1's poker game
Strange times these for Formula 1, which clings desperately to the hope of resuming racing before everything falls apart. As races continue to fall by the wayside (ten and counting at the time of writing), decimating F1’s income as teams beg for handouts from Liberty Media simply to stay afloat, FIA president Jean Todt is right when he suggests this is an existential crisis for grand prix racing, and indeed all of motorsport. Even in these extraordinary times of crisis, F1’s game of high stakes poker rages on off track. Franz Tost says each lost race is costing his team €2million; Claire Williams suggests her team won’t survive if racing doesn’t happen at all in 2020; McLaren now calls for F1 to go further and faster with drastic changes to monetary…