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I find SUVs are far from functional. Usually one person inside, and having trouble just negotiating the parking lot at Trader Joe's.
As of last night at Le Mans (haven't checked results yet) Ferrari was giving Toyota a strong challenge. So they know how to build cars that can fight at the front. Maybe their Le Mans team should take over their F1 team.
You do realize Ferrari F1 has been trying to find itself for over 15 years in F1.....yes? How many team principals since then? 6 ? I personally wouldn't touch the LeMans Ferrari AFCorsa team. Since 1973, Ferrari as a manufacturer, hasn't been at LeMans...that's 50 years and 58 years since Ferrari has won at LeMans. MONUMENTAL task at the hardest motorsport venue known to man and machine. Leave them alone I say as the team will get even mightier. Toyota Gazoo Racing will come back stronger next year and we don't need to shuffle the LeMans team with an F1 team. The tifosi and all of Italy are proud today....... ...until next year.
LMP2 dissolves and goes away next year. Proton gets a 963, BMW shows up, Lambo shows up....gonna be even more bananas than this year. Ferrari better get some customer cars going....
Gentlemanly fighter pilots in WW1 would have not considered le Mans the hardest venue in motorsports...........
We'll likely see a few engineers from the WEC move to the F1 team. It's a matter of how many, imho. OTOH, I don't see the Ferrari board gutting the WEC program. I'm sure the Ferrari board are thrilled to be able to win Le Mans and other endurance races going forward, with a concept that's relevant to their brand and road cars, and it wouldn't surprise me to see it become Ferrari's focus over F1. And really, I don't consider that such a bad thing. Ferrari deserve all the crap they get for how dysfunctional their F1 team is, but if we're honest, F1 left the kind of racing relevant to Ferrari a looong time ago. It ain't the F1 of Schumi, that's for sure.
If Ferrari left F1 world turns. F1 would not like it but Ferrari would print money no matter as an entity. F1 has no plan they have released for its future. F1 is peaking and new teams are not going to make it better. Just more strangely named slow cars being passed by the top 3 teams lol.
The result is great news for them, but also food for thoughts in F1; probably even more questions now, and less answers... Rgds
Right now, only Liberty benefits from F1, not the teams, the public, or the sport. Liberty are milking F1, and turning it into show-business for their own interest.
The bubble could burst at some point. I don't know who will be the losers. Will the audience start to desert F1 (spectators and TV viewers), followed by the sponsors ? With less money, F1 could shrink with less venues, less budgets for teams, bringing a more sensible formula.
Ferrari won't leave F1. The team pays for itself with sponsors and apparel sales alone, and then some. With the franchise fee going to be a billion dollar next, the Ferrari F1 team itself is worth how much?
