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...ever been," he says coolly to TIME. "The negative things are all ironed out." But others have a more somber, realistic view of the state of F1. "The sport has been damaged. We were firefighting our way through last year and we still have to finish firefighting," says Martin Whitmarsh, who runs the powerhouse McLaren team. "It's time for this sport to grow up." (See the most exciting cars...
...much a battle between engineers as it is a race between drivers. Spurred on by a space-race mentality, F1 teams were research-and-developing themselves into oblivion. "The cost was growing beyond the point where you could have one or two teams," says McLaren's Whitmarsh...
...would help if it also retooled itself for an age of scarcity. No one wants to watch a race for the fastest Prius, but "people want to see some progress on fuel efficiency and carbon emissions," says McLaren's Whitmarsh, who also heads the recently formed Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), which represents what insiders hope will be a new spirit of harmony in a sport traditionally run by tough guys behaving badly. "There's much work to be done so that F1 is seen as relevant to society." (See a brief history of Formula...
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Hardly had he finished speaking when Francis L. Whitmarsh, president of the National-American Wholesale Grocers Association stood up. Said he, just as ringingly: OPA must stay, for at least another year. Both grocers and public will be hurt "if controls are discontinued before demand and supply are in balance...