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Darrell Pardy (Dpardyferrari)
New member
Username: Dpardyferrari
Post Number: 14
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 6:07 pm: | |
Ferrari will not leave F1 !! The reality is without Ferrari, F1 would be dead. Bernie Ecclestone knows this and ultimately so do the other team owners. Have you ever watched a full season of races. No matter where they are the most noticable team support is for - Ferrari. And support foir Ferrari means support for F1 and all the teams. So, next week at the FIA meetings there will probably be some adjustment of the points awarding (1st-10, 2nd -8) and the qualifying (2 days instaed of 1), but Ferrari will not be penalized for their success. McLaren wasn't in the late 80's, Williams wasn't in the 90's, and Ferrari wont be now. |
ross koller (Ross)
Member
Username: Ross
Post Number: 424
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 11:57 am: | |
paul, u r dead right ! at least ron dennis and frank williams, (sad gits though they are), at least admitted the same and disapproved of the new suggestions. |
Paul Sloan (Sloan83qv)
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Username: Sloan83qv
Post Number: 383
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 8:18 pm: | |
The whole penalty issue is insane:
Jaguar owned by Ford which is the 2nd largest auto company in the world and can't even finish on the podium. (only once this year)
Mercedes can't barely finish a race and they are the third largest auto company in the world.
BMW is Barely no better than Mercedes in building track foggers.
Honda results are nothing short of laughable.
Now Ferrari who produces 4,000 auto a year kicks these huge multi-billion dollar companies butts 3 years in a row and now they may face a penalty.
Ford, Mercedes,BMW and Honda should be embarassed
that they can't engineer a car that can finish a race let alone be competitive. (The four companies combined produce more cars in 60 minutes then Ferrari produces in two years) |
Red Lindell (Redhead)
Junior Member
Username: Redhead
Post Number: 63
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 2:22 pm: | |
same here..
Talk is cheap...even in the World of Luca |
Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member
Username: Wsawyer
Post Number: 501
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 1:39 pm: | |
I'll believe it when I see it. |
Red Lindell (Redhead)
Junior Member
Username: Redhead
Post Number: 62
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 11:24 am: | |
Found this on Autosport this morning.....
Luca di Montezemolo angered by rule change proposals
Ferrari and Schumacher are F1's biggest draw
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has raised the threat of pulling the Italian giant out of Formula 1, if the radical rule changes proposed last week become reality.
The idea of introducing weight penalties for those who are successful predictably left the Ferrari hierarchy angry last week. The raft of changes from motorsport govering body, the FIA, were interpreted as a way of slowing the team and Michael Schumacher in an effort to make F1 more competitive.
Di Montezemolo said: "I find the proposals slightly insane, stuff you'd hear in a bar by amateurish fans with little knowledge of the sport.
"But they rasie the question, if these proposals go through - and I don't think they will - would it make sense for us to keep investing in a modified formula?
"After having won so much we could look for new challenges outside of F1."
Although its domination has knocked F1's TV viewing figures this year, Ferrari remains grand prix racing's biggest draw. Its pull-out would be a major blow to the sport.
But this is not the first time that Ferrari has threatened to withdraw from F1. In the 1980s, the team designed and built an Indycar to demonstrate that it could carry through the threat of quitting. But the car never raced and the threat came to nothing.
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