Bernie says greedy F1 teams would take the money and run

Ecclestone mocks FOTA teams

"I was just telling someone the other day that most of them in Formula One are a bit new," F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone told Singapore's Today newspaper.

"They haven't served an apprenticeship. They just don't know what we had to go through to build things up in the beginning to what they are today. They want to take whatever they can, as much as they can, and disappear," referring to Honda and BMW's recent departure.

"A couple of them, I think, maybe thought they would like to do something else and be in charge of something. They are not even in charge of anything they are now doing anyway, so how they think they could be in charge of something as big as F1, I don't know. Anyway, it is their opinion."

The guy most people credit for singlehandedly making F1 into the huge sport it is today pointed out that the FOTA eight would have had a very tough time building a racing series that could rival Formula One.

"This business is built now and it is easier to do what we are doing rather than start something again," he said. "I wouldn't want to start a series in opposition to Formula 1, for sure.

"There is no real reason for it; there is no logic in it. Just as I said to people, those who wanted to break away must have been carried away. The trouble is they are more the corporate types. This isn't a corporate business, it is an entrepreneur business."