New F1 Feeder Series May Launch Another ‘Tyre War’

The FIA is inviting will tenders for a new feeder series for Formula One. This championship, called Formula Two, will be launched in 2009 and used as an inexpensive platform to develop emerging driver talent for Formula One. It is hoped this can be achieved within a budget of around 200,000 euros a car per season.

Formula Two, in its previous incarnation, was eliminated in 1984 and replaced by the unsuccessful Formula 3000 championship. If Formula Two is re-introduced, a question mark would hang over the fate of the current GP2 series, which is solely supplied by Bridgestone; some believe that a new feeder series would be the death of GP2, and the possibility exists of a new tyre war emerging.