F1 » Ferrari vows to quit over budget cap

And if they were doing well this year...........?

Pier - F1 represents good value for your marketing department to be able to put your name to a car in this sport is relatively cheap compared to for instance 30seconds in the middle of the superbowl $10mil. Now lets look at jobs do you think in Toyota save 60 million in F1 they are going to go out and keep jobs in the industry not really making any sense there. Alan D has a good point above if you want to save the jobs you should ban All motor sport so car companies can pump the money into workers never happen. As for the FIA they do not regulate all motor sport NASCAR INDYCAR in north america do not come under the FIA banner so the FOTA breakaway could use any track or driver they want.

This is no longer about what is good for F1. This is a major p1ssing contest between MAX MOSELY (not the FIA) and FOTA. 1 or the other is gone. Who will back done first?

Since Mecedes already played the "I will quit if I don't get my way" card this year, how will this effect the FIA on this issue. If they keep backing down to teams quit threats they will lose the little credibility that they still have. I fear that this is heading the way of the Indycar split.

If Ferrari do leave I am not sure that sportscars is a good choice given the current dominance by diesels. A rival international open wheel series is a massive undertaking so I don't see that happening. Maybe they will make a run at the Indy 500 and Le Mans next year. Is it possible for them to only do Monaco too?

GO ON CHICKENS !!!
MAKE MY DAY!!

If these teams have so much money to spend why not put 2 or 4 extra cars on the grid? 36 cars and pre qualifying sounds good to me.

for thouse that seem to say its ferrari throwing there toys out the pram you must be including bmw toyota and red bull in that then. and if ferrari leave so will all the other major teams then see how long f1 lasts.i am a ferrari fan and if they leave i will stop watching f1 in support of ferrari and so will millions more ferrari fans. with no fans watching sponsors will leave tv companys wont show decent coverage and the sport will die..

how can ppl be so biased towards ferrari? ferrari is actually more important than any other team cuz they have achieved more than everyone else.....
when mclaren said it would quit because they got caught cheating and didnt want their cheating "champion" thrown out, they threatened to quit....are they not bullies? if ferrari leaves, it will be the end of f1...period

What you Ferrari hating idiots are forgetting is that Max and Bernie are destroying a sport that we all love regardless of who we support, the racing has gotten progressively worse over the last 15 years, the FIA continue to make one absolutely retatrded decsision after another and Bernie continues to milk everyone.

How can any sport survive?

BMW/RedBull/Toyota etc etc have also disagreed..

F1 should be about technololgy/racing and winning .. not rule changes/stable rules will make the racing cheaper.

@Mark, The logical entry into LMS would be an LMP2, no diesels there. V12s are allowed, KERS is there etc. An Ideal choice and as Luca is the official starter this year. Perhaps They choose this direction prior to recent events?