Bring back Balestre;)
A month ago I was in maranello visting my cousin at the factory and I came upon the Indy car Ferrari built but never raced last time they were at loggerheads with the FIA....may be time to revisit that and a return to le mans. My cousin has been accepted into the Gestione Sportiva as an aerodynamacist (his lifelong dream) and to have Ferrari pull out of F1 now would be devestating to him.
Ferrari should start their own racing league. Obviously, all manufacturers are welcome. They just make their own rules.
Ferrari needs to be back as a factory sports car team in LMP1. This thread is a dup of what's in the F1 section......mods please merge. Carol
I used to watch F1 until the Indianapolis debacle. Also, not enough passing and can sometimes be a bore.zzzzzzzz I switch to American Lemans but what happen to the Penske Porsche spyders? eh,?! Anway I think F1 was its best between 2000-2005.
The Penske Porsche Spyder project was for only three years. Those cars are back with Porsche. The only Spyders currently running are those of NAVI Team Goh (in Le Mans) and with Essex (Danish team) - the Essex car ran this past weekend at the LMS Spa race, took first place in LMP2 - will be at Le Mans also. Carol
No Ferrari diesels please...call it an Alfa or Lancia at most..... F1 needs Ferrari and Ferrari needs F1. Neither however need Max nor does the FIA..clearly time for max to go. The troll bernie between a legitimate breakaway series threat and his divorce will get in line.
There won't be a need for a Ferrari Diesel simply because Ferrari is bluffing: They will never split from F1. The whole board meeting was just a charade. No, I have no proof or source for this. Just my gutt feeling looking back at 60 years of F1/Ferrari history. They're inseparable.
They aren't bluffing, but they might as well be. Mernie will cave because F1 simply cannot run with only 3 teams.
I agree but still its interesting to watch both the usually secret negotiations and the reaction these announcements are generating.
No, theyre not. Ferrari knows it, the FIA knows it. I am convinced Ferrari will not compete in a series that doesn't meet their sporting and commercial interests, nor should they. Ferrari will however, always compete at the highest level of motorsport, but it would be wrong to assume that the highest level of motorsport is per definition Formula One.
Yeah, maybe Ferrari can start racing in IRL....maybe they'll finally break the US market! I can see it now....they'll get Taco Bell as their sponsor, and "Buddy Rice" as a driver...... NOT
The FIA controls the various classes of motorsport and therefore via the rules and regulations will make sure that F1 is king. If they dumb down F1, they will simply dumb down all other series accordingly so F1 remains the highest level. Ferrari does no marketing because their campaign is F1, which gives them the necessary coverage. If there was no F1 and Ferrari would instead participate in say Le Mans (yawn), this would simply not suffice as a marketing device because the viewers (what viewers?) who watch that racing are a tiny fraction of the millions who watch F1 every other Sunday. If you think about it, it is really simple. And obvious. Ferrari is bluffing.
Perhaps the FIA should copy Major League Baseball and have the Teams the exceed the caps pay into a fund which supports the "poorer" teams.
I agree with you 100%. Yet I find this bluffing by Ferrari to be stupid and dangerous. Politically, Luca would have looked great if he came out of this supposed board meeting with an actual solution to the problem. Like a real plan to implement the budget caps without having a two tier system. Instead, he did a Bernie. By not offering a plan, it is like admitting the only solution is the one proposed by the FIA, but since we are Ferrari we want it all our way so we will throw a tantrum first. Yea, sure. Luca just made Ferrari part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Bernie's divorce is over and possibly a scam anyway. There is no legitimate breakaway series threat, as there is no where to have a breakaway series and no one to pay for it. And if F1 as we know it today were to disinegrate, I think it likely that with the current world economic concerns, the boards of both Mercedes, Renault, Toyota would just skip F1 all together. Mercedes is one vote away from this now. Brawn and the other teams would stick with the FIA. Then you would have Ferrari racing Red Bull, and when Ferrari got tired of Red Bull beating them, Ferrari would pull a Penske/Ganassi and go back to F1. In secret, the powers that be will figure out a way to get Luca out of the corner in which he is backing himself in order for him to save face. Then there is that very real possiblity that the other teams may leave him at the last minute. Whoops.
