By 1983, the dispute between FISA and FOCA had been resolved and although FOCA emerged with the stronger hand, the teams had seen the writing on the wall.

Fourteen cars took part, most from teams which were not members of FOCA.

As a result, the FOCA teams boycotted San Marino GP after two races.

The race was marked by a boycott of many teams as part of a political war, unrelated to the event itself, involving the two dominant forces within the sport, the FISA and the FOCA, which caused the field for this race to be only 14 cars.

FOCA consisted of the major British teams, while the manufacturer teams ( Renault, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Talbot-Ligier ), together with Italian team Osella and Toleman were aligned with FISA.

The FOCA teams requested a postponement of the next race, the San Marino Grand Prix, until July to allow consideration of the effects of the judgement, on the grounds that it changed the regulations of the sport.

The race organisers refused to delay the race, which went ahead without the majority of the FOCA teams.

FISA clashed repeatedly with the Formula One Constructors Association ( FOCA ), which represented the teams ' interests.

The teams are supported by the fundraising efforts of Friends of Cambridge Athletics ( FOCA ) who sell " Cambridge Athletics "- branded clothing to subsidize the teams.

The battle boiled during the late 1970s and early 1980s and came to a head when the racing teams affiliated with FOCA, an equivalent to a racing team union, boycotted the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix.

In addition, the battle revolved around the commercial aspects of the sport ( the FOCA teams were unhappy with the disbursement of proceeds from the races ) and the technical regulations which, in FOCA's opinion, tended to be malleable according to the nature of the transgressor more than the nature of the transgression.

After a lengthy debate between the teams, the drivers, FOCA and FISA, the race went ahead at the insistence of King Juan Carlos without FISA's sanctioning or the support of the factory teams.

The FOCA teams staged a Formula One race under the WFMS banner in South Africa in February 1981, won by Carlos Reutemann in a Williams FW07B-Cosworth.

A grudging settlement was reached thereafter which allowed the FOCA teams to return to the " FISA " world championship in time for the first race in March.

In theory, all FOCA teams were supposed to boycott the Grand Prix as a sign of solidarity and complaint at the handling of the regulations and financial compensation ( and, it must be said, extreme opposition to the accession of Balestre to the position of FISA president-both Colin Chapman of Lotus and Frank Williams of Williams stated clearly that they would not continue in Formula One with Balestre as its governor ).

In practice, several of the FOCA teams backed out of the boycott, citing " sponsor obligations ".

The hard feelings and repercussions of the four " FOCA " teams ' participation in the race would carry on into the mid 1980s and significantly impact the competitiveness of those teams.

This disqualification was a response to the FOCA teams ' attempts to overcome their cars ' power deficit to the other ( mainly manufacturer backed or owned ) teams ' turbocharged engines.

Ecclestone used his power as the head of FOCA to do exactly that, with a local fire truck called in to water down the only dry road on the track.

After the season got off to a bad start ( the first 3 races were nearly boycotted ; the first 2 due to safety concerns with both the Buenos Aires and Interlagos circuits and the third because of a dispute between FISA and FOCA ), the Drivers ’ Championship was won by Australian Alan Jones in a Williams and Williams took the Constructors award, the first of many Formula One titles for the English team.

In May 2004 the airline obtained its Air Operator's Certificate licence from the Federal Office for Civil Aviation of Switzerland ( FOCA ), allowing it to operate with its own aircraft-a 50-seat Dash 8-Q300 leased from the manufacturer, Bombardier Aerospace.

In order to keep pace with the turbo cars, FOCA team bosses began to look for loopholes in the regulations.

With this in mind, the FOCA teams showed up at the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix with " water-cooled brakes ".

While containing a full license ( The license is granted by FOCA, not the FIA ) of the 1995 Formula One racing season with thirteen teams and twenty-six drivers, the game only allows you to play as five drivers: Michael Schumacher ( Benetton ), Damon Hill ( Williams ), Jean Alesi ( Ferrari ), Ukyo Katayama ( Tyrrell ), and Mika Häkkinen ( McLaren ).

In this role he drew up the first version of the Concorde Agreement, which settled a long-standing dispute between FOCA and the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile ( FISA ), the then governing body of Formula One.

1978 was the year that Ecclestone became chief executive of FOCA and led it through the FISA-FOCA war that would lead to the downfall of FISA and give FOCA the right to negotiate television contracts for the Grands Prix, effectively giving Ecclestone commercial control of Formula 1 which continues to this day.

Ironically, the rest of the FOCA teams ' cars in the Brazilian Grand Prix ( some of which had scored points ) were not disqualified despite the fact they ran the same water-cooled brakes system.

While it is not clear that these issues were ever properly resolved, the FISA – FOCA war was ultimately put into more or less permanent abeyance by the Concorde Agreement to which both parties agreed at the beginning of 1981.

The Formula One Constructors Association ( FOCA ) and FISA had been in dispute over the control of the sport since 1979.

Ken Tyrrell in particular was enraged by the fact that Ecclestone, as President of FOCA had negotiated the transfer of the rights from the organization to his own company.

The offseason had seen FISA ( La Federation Internationale du Sport Automobile ) and FOCA ( the Formula One Constructors ' Association ) in conflict, ostensibly over FISA's scheduled ban of aerodynamic skirts on the cars, but also over financial control of the sport.

At the end of the 1977 season, the F1 team's assets and FOCA membership were sold to ATS ( who had bought the Penske cars ); Herd was retained by them as a consultant and was hence in the curious position of developing a development of his own 1975 car-and the 1978 ATS had some features reminiscent of contemporary March thinking.

In the buildup to the race, FISA fined the majority of the FOCA team drivers who had not appeared at the drivers ' briefings at the Belgian and Monaco races and unless the fines were paid, the drivers at fault would have their racing licences revoked by the governing body.

The FISA teams accused the FOCA teams of intentionally mis-interpreting the rule in question, while the FOCA teams claimed since ‘ topping up ’ the tanks wasn't specifically illegal, it had to be legal.

After threatening to institute their own championship, FOCA agreed to the skirt ban on assurance of their continued control of the sport's finances and FISA's commitment to a four-year period of stability in the rules.

The FOCA team bosses claimed that their boycott of the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix was in response to the disqualification of Nelson Piquet's Brabham and Keke Rosberg's Williams from the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix.

Organizers were finally able to secure funding for circuit improvements in late August, but still needed a $ 750, 000 loan from FOCA to pay prize money and other expenses.

Andretti responded to the comments on race day morning, stating that he is " not critical of the race organizers ", but instead " critical of our own FOCA officials who were sent over here to approve the track ".

The principals in the matter were Jean-Marie Balestre, then FISA president, Bernie Ecclestone, then the leader of the Formula One Constructor's Association and owner of the Brabham Formula One team, and Max Mosley, later president of the FIA, but then legal advisor to both Ecclestone's Brabham team and FOCA in general.

Disputes were settled by March 1981 when the Concorde Agreement gave FOCA the right to negotiate TV contracts.

For the fourth Grand Prix of the season, at Imola on April 25, amidst a war between the FISA and FOCA, only 14 cars loyal to the organisation started the race.

Mosley left the company to concentrate on FOCA matters.