Is F1 heading towards a 'slave team' future?

While Formula 1 came together to ensure Force India would be saved, there is already controversy over what the team's future could look like and the form its relationship with Mercedes might now take.

Jonathan Noble Aug 30, 2018, 1:29 PM

Upd: Aug 30, 2018, 1:39 PM

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The entire F1 community and fans worldwide were in agreement last week that Force India being saved from collapse was a good thing (at least in the short term).

With so many jobs at risk at the 'Pink Panther' team, which has built up a fanbase as an exciting underdog, not having it on the grid would have been a terrible blow for F1.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.