Formula1 drivers to strike at Silverstone?
...all due to exorbitant license fees
Formula One is big business, and as such only big money is associated with the sport - but there is such a thing as "exorbitant amounts of money". The FIA, governing body of the F1, has raised its pricing for superlicences the drivers need in order to compete.
Last year, FIA demanded Euro 1,500 plus Euro 250 per point scored from last year's competition. But this year, the prices have been bumped up to Euro 10,000 base fee plus Euro 2,000 per point! Defending champion Kimi Raikkonen has received a bill for Euro 230,000 (110 points) rather than Euro 29,000.
Surely Kimi could easily afford this crazy amount of money, but not everybody is so fortunate to have multi-million Euro deals. Take Robert Kubica for instance - he has received a bill for Euro 88,000, or one tenth of his yearly income.
Result is that the drivers are contemplating a strike, or so goes the rumour, at the sold-out Silverstone UK Grand Prix! The 80,000 racing fans will surely be extremely disappointed, and its questionable whether F1 could survive yet another big blow - after the Mosley affair and the tyre fiasco a few years back at Indy.
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