F1 » Ferrari vows to quit over budget cap

ferrari are only saying what 4 other teams have already stated, yet there are a few misguided posters who seem to think that it isonly ferrari. get real! this is far deeper than that. dont let your apparent hate for the premier team in F1 cloud the fact that it is F! that is in turmoil! changes will need to be made by all but if any team feels that they should spend what they can afford to be successful, then let them. the ones who cannot afford it will soon disappear. NOBODY wants the prospect of a six car grid next year, so ALL fans should unite in condeming the FIA and BE and MM who are intent on destruction.

Everyone is sweating this two tear thing. Max screwed up! There should be one tear 40 mil and under. You want to spend more go somewhere else. Ferrari is the NY Yankees they think they can just spend there way to the championships. That's why baseball sucks! One cap, all the same for all. Bring the spending down and loosen the innovation!

This is post number 40 on this subject,the majority of these 40 posts are of suddenly very happy people, which all of a sudden had a change of heart and are now championing the FIA,to these people and GASSOLINI in particular, lets wait a bit more to see who have the biggest balls, don't forget that a cat in a hurry will most probably produce only blind kittens.

Asta la vista Ferrari! Please Please dont come back. Like all sports, F1 will survive without a top name. Lets hope people dont cower away and give in to them. Adios!!!!!!!!!!!!

BYE!

Why still buzzin aroud, lets get it straight: all participants have to beginn the season i mean with development of the 2010 car cca from 7/2009, so they could put on a special F1 account 40m pounds and then they will use only this account for all obligatory expenses during the season, so the controll will be easy for all. To have two different rules for each participat is crazy.. but there is way: if strong team have to use more zilions, each will cost them -1 or 1.5 points this will force them to reduce costs and dont bother regulations. I understand ferrari, imagine where all the budget goes and how many others will suffer by cost cut it can ruin the industry that is connected to F1teams

What people dont seem to realise is that F1 attracts the best drivers because - as the premier form of motorsport - the best teams compete & pay the most.
If Ferrari, Toyota, BMW, Red Bull, & Torro Rosso leave & take their $200m budgets somewhere else, the drivers will either go where the money is, or retire.

If these five teams all go to sports cars, that will quickly become the premier category.
I dunno about you, but I'd enjoy seeing Massa, Vettel, Kubica, Heidfeld, & Webber racing against experienced sports car drivers like McNish, Minassian, Werner, etc.
Imagine the Le Man 24 hrs in 2010 ...

"As for the FIA they do not regulate all motor sport NASCAR INDYCAR in north america do not come under the FIA banner"

that's where you are rather wrong sunshine...

Nascar and IRL make up two of the 7 members of the ACCUS, which is the National Sporting Authority (ASN) of the FIA for the United States.

So the FIA DOES hold sway over those as well. I don't know of any country who's motorsports authority isn't associated with the FIA (not to say there isn't)

There's nothing to stop them taking their membership from the FIA, but it would rather screw any US driver who wanted to make it on the "world" stage.

"Hardtimes will bust a chump" This is hilarious to follow as the un-informed horse haters vent their bile as if the red car team is the only group making this same objection. Last time I saw numbers Toyota was spending Ferrari like amounts on F1 also. I guess some of you geniuses should research which current teams fit inside the 40M box that Max seems prepared to bury this sport in. F1 is a manufacturers championship not a spec series with spending limits. You want to watch boring racing with identical cars try to watch Nascar, go ahead I dare you.

a two-tier system would be so bad. If a team went the high-budget route and won then everyone would be saying it was only because they had unlimited budget, even if they only spent 10 million more than a capped team.

More to the point though, F1 shouldn't be about imposing business plans. The ethos of GP racing wasn't about building equally matched cars, it was about car builders building the best open-wheel single seater cars they could within certain engineering limits like engine size. Some of the recent rules like requiring at least one tyre change per race are just silly, but these budget cap ideas are the silliest yet.