New Teams

Formula 1 needs to enlist more great marques to the sport!

Porsche
Lamborghini
Ford
AUDI
BMW
TOYOTA
TATA
ROLLS ROYCE

 

I'd rather they fix the sport so it's a lot more closer at the front over having new teams.

 

The problem is that Mad Max chased the real manufacturers: Honda, Toyota, Jaguar, BMW, etc., out, in favor of tiny little teams that FOM could push around in ways that manufacturers wouldn't take.

Then they had to impose "cost cutting" measures -- like "no testing", and limited engines -- to keep those tiny teams in the game.
("No testing" also means that you don't give your "reserve drivers" any real seat time.)

Then they had the bright idea to "go green" with hybrids which are clearly not consistent and predictable enough for performance driving ---
--- and that blew the "economical" series out the door.

So the tiny teams are going broke, or taking on five "pay drivers" with only two seats.

Anyone else now wishing the "breakaway series" had gone ahead, with real constructors taking over from FOM?

 

Although Tata has no car in the race, "Jaguar" is heavily advertised at the events and sponsors much of the pre-shows and post-shows.

 

Tata...now there is a name that really gets a race fan reved up!!!! Almost as much as Subaru.

 

What F1 needs is to get back to "teams" and get rid of "production car companies".

 

Ah...in other words, get rid of Ferrari.

 

Ferrari are the quintessential F1 "team"

Ferrari ..... production car company ...... ROFL

 

Ferrari = Chrysler-Fiat group.

Not a production car company ?

 

Ferrari is, apparently, the "second most recognized brand in the world" (behind Coke). I'd be willing to bet that the *vast* majority have no idea they're in any way related to FCG.

Cheers,
Ian

 

+1000.

This will automatically lure in new teams

 

Awesome logic, here's some more

William owns a pet cat
William = a cat

Muammar Gaddafi owns McLaren shares
McLaren = brutal dictator (well, actually this may be true)

 

Muammar Gaddafi, dead
McLaren = dead

 

Don't underestimate McLaren.

If they are indeed dead it will be a huge loss for the sport.

 

Yes, mclaren will fight back for sure. Not only honda could start with a clean sheet design but they also have more in season development tokens than mercedes. This I find unfair. There should be no tokens for honda.

 

There should be no tokens period because there should be no engine freeze.

Fans pizz and moan about Mercedes domination and then try to hobble the best opportunity to end it.
Makes no sense. But what does in today's F1?

 

I only pointed out to you, that Ferrari is not just a small team like Manor, Williams, Lotus Caterham and so on.

Ferrari, as part of the FIAT-Chrysler group, is on equal footing with Mercedes, Renault, Honda, etc...

Since FIAT, Alfa, or Maserati, don't have racing department anymore, Ferrari is now the only racing arm of a huge car manufacturing consortium, and benefits from its financial backing.

 

Soon to be in the past tense.
In fact very soon Ferrari will be constrained by the debt that Fiat is putting on them.

 

But think about the potential...

How many new fans would be generated each time the commentator says: "we have yet to see any action form the two Tatas." Or..."the two Tatas should be out on track any moment now." A partnership with Penthouse or Playboy would be a natural.

 

Subaru has a mountain more racing pedegree than Tata. They cannot be in the same
sentence IMO. Tata has actually no racing pedegree whatsoever, does it?

 

Subaru in F1 reminds me this: flat 12.

 

... a flat-12 designed by Carlo Chiti, no less
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Yep, the one and only. I remember practice Thusrday and pre-quali during the
Mexican GP in '90 and the noise was glorious.

It's a shame that the engine was on the heavy side, and could not offset (enough)
the advantages of its low centre of gravity.