Grand Prix World Championship
The GPWC was made up of Mercedes-Benz, Sauber-BMW, Renault, Honda and Toyota, five of the teams. The Grand Prix World Championship, commonly abbreviated GPWC, was a proposal for an alternative competition to Formula 1. most important of Formula 1. This entity intended that this competition was working for the 2008 season, since that year ended the so-called Pact of Concord.
Originally, the Ferrari team belonged to the GPWC, but left the same after extending the aforementioned agreement of the agreement with the FIA until 2012. In addition, the teams Red Bull Racing and Jordan Grand Prix have also corroborated the new pact until that season. Resurgence
During the month of June 2009 was very close to reopening this option, as the Association of Formula 1 Teams (FOTA) wanted to untie this competition for 2010, all this was due to its great differences with the FIA, organizer of the F-1 championship, in aspects like the budgetary limit or the elimination of the pit stops.
If the FIA and the teams did not reach an agreement, the so-called FOTA Formula was a serious option to take into account. However, the threat of an alternative World Cup was definitively closed after the International Motorsport reversed its demands to the Formule One Team Association.
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