Hitman Luca Nails His Men

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Weeks ago we predicted a shoot-out between Luca di Montezemolo and FIA President Max Mosley for which there could be only one winner. And there very clearly is one winner.

Following Wednesday's FIA meeting in Paris, if you look at Formula 1 as it's scheduled to run in 2010, how different is it to the F1 that FOTA suggested? Hardly any different. There is no mention of budget caps, no FIA imposed limits on spending and no two-tier technical system. What's more, the system of governance that Mosley was trying to impose will be swept away.

And the biggest bonus of all is that from October he will be gone.

Mosley's capitulation was orchestrated last night and into the small hours of the morning away from the glare of publicity and the delegates of the FIA. Like some mafia hitman, Luca di Montezemolo flew into Paris last night to arrange the terms of Mosley's surrender. The coup de grace.