What do you think? I think it is a good move on Ferraris part. http://www.f1racing.net/news.php?ID=67804
It is a good move from Ferrari because a) they're the only leading Bridgestone team (as the article correctly states) and b) the Sauber this year is basically last year's Ferrari with this year's engine, so results are comparable. The money will probably not really be transferred, after all Sauber pays Ferrari 20 Mio for the engines. So basically they'll get a discount. And I think there is more to the story: Not totally sure on this, but I believe this is the year where the big teams are supposed to give the engines away to the smaller teams so they can survive. Well, Ferrari could now make the point that they already discounted the engine fee by 25%.
If you ask me judging from this quote its better than well played, but masterfully played.Ferrari is number One for a couple reasons and there logic must be one of them. "Ferrari could push development that little bit faster, but also benefit from being able to run a pseudo-third car of their own. This would make their decision about tyres for the Grand Prix weekend easier and the team would not risk putting too many miles on the single engines each race car is allowed during the weekend."
