Ahead of talks with teams, Formula 1 Managing Dir Ross Brawn said that Liberty Media wants to steer F1 toward a "better place" but there are "no quick fixes for the sport's evident problems," according to Alan Baldwin of REUTERS. Brawn said, "There are some straightforward issues that we recognize, but the solutions are going to take some time." He said that the teams, FIA and commercial rights holder "all had their own priorities." Brawn: "The commercial rights holder ... is going to also focus on making the show as good as it can be and the entertainment and the sport as good as it can be. Every decision that's going to be made in the future ... all have to tick some boxes and those boxes will be, 'Does it make the sport better? Does it make it more entertaining? Does it make it more economic?'" Liberty wants a "more level playing field, with a more competitive grid that would give smaller teams a chance." Brawn said, "I think the message is that we are fighting the corner to make the sport as entertaining and as viable and as economic as we can for the future" (REUTERS, 2/17).
