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Bernie starts to show his hand Ecclestone has issued a thinly veiled warning that he will sue Ferrari if it walks away from Formula 1 suggesting that Ferrari would itself be in breach of contract if it were to pull out of F1 in 2010

Bernies got nothing. He's got a contract for those teams to be racing. If they decide like they want, to p*ss off and create their own series and provide CVC (Bernies company) with TV/Sponsorship rights then Bernie will be getting his racing from the contracted teams and there is diddly he can do about it.
The teams can argue that the contracts are broken the second the FIA start fiddling with the rules anyway as the agreement they signed upto included details on the rules and such. They'll just say since there was a unanonmous(sp?) agreement on rule changes then they cant legally push it through under their contract with Bernard..
Bernie needs to pick a side and stick to it. I know he's trying to be a mediator but he's constantly switching sides and its failing.

Methinks the only thing Bernie has in his hand is his weiner

[quote]Teams agree to leave F1


According to Formula One Teams' Association President, all teams have agreed to withdraw from Formula One at the end of the season should the sport