If Ferrari and Merc quit

The problem is that you called Ferrari "a company that sells all cars made without or with F1"
Ferrari was always a racing team first and foremost, and made roads cars to fund the racing team...
Although I suspect this distinction doesn't mean very much in Marchionne era.

 

They are a brand now. They can sell all without F1 and sell all win or lose in F1. They do not need F1 to sell their cars at all. They are now a public company and profits matter as much if not more than F1 within Corporate governance.

 

Go Damon LOL This is going to be as big a story as the series itself this year. Interesting.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/135021/hill-and-mercedes-in-row-over-f1-pullout-threats

A declaration that Mercedes and Ferrari should break away from Formula 1 has led to a Twitter spat between Damon Hill and F1's reigning champion squad.

The 1996 world champion took to Twitter to urge F1's two big teams to make good on threats to form a breakaway series, complaining that "massive industrial complexes are ruining the sport" and adding that "the FIA have lost grip of F1."

Mercedes responded by suggesting Hill was not complaining when he was winning "with top of the line Renault power", which led to Hill pointing out that he was driving for a Williams squad considered "disgusting garagiste upstarts".

Expanding on his thoughts over the two teams' 'industrial complexes', Hill told Autosport that Mercedes and Ferrari were not longer treating F1 as a sport.

"Ferrari and Mercedes are acting in concert to try and create conditions under which they would stay in the sport," said Hill.

"If you would have accused them of working together in the past they would have denied it, but now here they are paired up nicely to try and get conditions under which they would continue to stay at the front of the pack.

"My argument is that it's a sport that should be trying to create at least the opportunity for all of the competitors to have a reasonable chance of competing.

"That's always been a difficult problem for our sport, because it rewards the dominant disproportionately."

Hill suggested the threats from Mercedes and Ferrari to walk away from F1 are little more than political posturing, and said the FIA should stand its ground.

"I just think it's a negotiation tactic," he added.

"Would they be prepared to compete in a championship where they wouldn't have such favourable conditions? Where they had conditions that were more equal?

"If they're not prepared to do that, maybe they shouldn't be here.

 

Hill probably reads FChat....

 

Win or loose in F1, Ferrari still sells its production cars. Most buyers of Ferrari production cars don't connect F1 to production cars. Look at Mclaren production cars, they sell AND Mclaren F1 does poorly......customers that buy these product niche's don't care about F1.

 

"Hill told Autosport that Mercedes and Ferrari were not longer treating Formula 1 as a sport" - Damon: It's not a sport any more, it's an entertainment series - Just ask Liberty Media.

Looks like Damon Hill can't wait for F1 to become a stock series, with totally identical cars, and all 8 ~10 competing teams having an equal chance of winning every race weekend (just like Formula 2), as hoped for by Liberty Media!

The funny thing is, had that been F1 back in his day, then he would never have been a World Champion, because he only won his title due to a having a massive car advantage!