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.
Without these teams, Ill probably start watching MotoGP or start supporting the Ferrari ALMS and Le Mans team. Without these 6 in the sport, I won’t care who’s running and it won’t be the same sport.
Where do you weigh in?
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Great if they leave it will be good for RACING because that what F1 should be not a PR exercise for large manufacturers.I personally did not want them involved again reading that in the fifties they just left and could not care about F1 just what publicity they could get.Again i would not miss Ferrari as the modern team has something missing.
Comment by nicholas ballard May 14, 2009 @ 8:52 am