McLaren boss Zak Brown says Formula One must act decisively if it wants to minimise the political turbulence he expects to be created by the ongoing discussions about the post-2021 regulations.
Liberty Media enters its sophomore season in charge of F1 facing questions about what the sport will look like in 2021. Though it has been making smaller changes -- such as a tweak to session times and a significant re-brand of the product -- the bigger issues are likely to dominate headlines in 2018 as the negotiations intensify.
Ferrari threatened to quit the championship when it saw Liberty's first engine blueprint last season and Brown believes F1 cannot afford to allow that sort of political stand-off to continue for too long this year.