We recently had the news that Jaguar was pulling out of F1.
It will be sad if we end up going down to seven teams next season.
We had a press briefing by Max Mosley recently and we asked lot of questions and that was the main topic.
Privateers are the lifeblood of the sport and need a leg up, they need to be given support.
Max Mosley is right at the end of the day in that the cost of the sport is too high and has to be brought down.
That is what he is striving to do - make it safer and make it more cost-efficient.
That would mean that as well as the big teams prospering, you would get smaller teams who are not going to be suffocated. They get enough oxygen to survive and compete well.
You then don't have this massive gap between the haves and have-nots, that is what he is working on.
That is why we need regulations for engines that must last two races, reducing the amount of tyres they use, reducing the amount of testing they can do.
That will all save an enormous anmount of money.
And if you are talking about 18 or 19 races next year as they are, you just can't physically have the time to test and test and test and do all those races as well.
And teams will not have the budget to do all this.
What we need to focus on is a cheaper supply of engines for the smaller teams.
The viability of seven teams running a third car is far more expensive than a supply of engines to the smaller teams.
And maybe new smaller but stronger private teams will have to be lured back into Grand Prix because they have been pushed out because they can't afford to be there.
I agree it's a great shame that a brand name like Jaguar will not be in F1.
But business is business and manufacturers will always be dictated to by the market and the market fluctuates.
So goodness knows how the Grand Prix World Championship (GPWC), which was mooted as a rival championship to the FIA, would have done.
It was composed of manufacturers and at one point that was headed by Richard Parry-Jones of Ford.
Now they are not in it anymore so that further weakens their case.
If they were going to do that they would all have to agree to stay on for a minimum amount of time to run that championship.
But it strengthens the case for privateers in Grand Prix because they are the lifeblood of the sport.
Now if Frank Williams loses BMW and HP and all his sponsors, he will find others to carry on entertaining people worldwide.
That is what the they are used to and will do it again.
Tony Jardine was talking to Stephen Joyce.
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