Filed under: F1 News Update | Tags: BMW, F1 2010, ferrari, FIA Budget cap, Mclaren, Red Bull F1, Torro Rosso, toyota
These 5 teams that, so far, have protested the proposed budget cap of 40 million euros and the subsequent two tier F1 outlook.
That is stunning. Teams that have become a successful part of Grand Prix racing have declared they will not race in 2010 under the current proposed budget cap.
Even with the potential introduction of Lola, USGPE, Aston Martin, and ProDrive, Formula One cannot allow these teams, ESPECIALLY Ferrari and Mclaren to disappear from F1. I personally feel that F1 is F1 because of the technology, the noise, and the lavishness that we all know, and love.
I have a gut feeling that Max [Mosley] will probably give some snide remark and again claim, “we can live without them.” But in reality, Formula One can’t live without them. The absence of any one of these teams will mean that F1, is no longer F1. F1 is F1 because of the teams in it. The turnover of 1 team every now and then (Minard, Stewart, Jaguar) is acceptable because it’s rare and they never really had a great impact on the sport. BMW, Ferrari and Mclaren in particular make up the framework for F1.
Filed under: F1 News Update, Just Because | Tags: Ayrton Senna, death, F1, Imola 1994, Roland Ratzenberger, Williams
May 1, 1994′s Imola Grand Prix is known to F1 fans as “Black Sunday” and that weekend in general as some of the darkest days in Grand Prix history. On friday during practice, Rubens Barrichello had a horrific shunt but lived to tell about it. Saturday was a different story. Roland Ratzenberger had a similar accident but tragically died at the scene. Sunday is the day we all know so well.
Three times World Champion Ayrton Senna lost control of his Williams car for a split second and careened into the barrier on the right hand side of the track. I was not at this time following F1, however I have seen the race and the accident many times since. It was Ayrton who’s death transformed the sport. The GPDA came from his death, safety devices like improved helmet testing and the mandatory use of the HANS device worn today owe their use to deaths of drivers like Senna. (more…)
