Penske To F1 In 2008 ???

I read that story today as well.

Penske will only do it if budgets are reasonable, I believe the article mentioned the $80 million range.

I would love to see Penske back in F1. The more American presence in the sport, the better. If anyone can do it, it would be Penske.

 

Interesting idea. He's a guy who can't stand failure, so it's possible he wants to return before he dies, but, as Kisdan said, he won't do it unless everything is in place. Add the complication of a new Porsche ALMS effort and he may decide he has too much on his plate at the moment.

 

I would love to see a US team in F1. However, IIRC, in the 80's when Penske was still building their own chassis for CART, weren't their team either based in GB or are made up of mostly engineers from GB? As for the engine, maybe either GM or Ford will finally step up to the plate and be a engine supplier.

 

If Mad Max gets his wish and cars and parts will become tradable in the near future we might see a whole bunch of car/racing manufacturers join F1 slapping their label and/or engineering onto an existing design.

Having a US team in F1 can only be a good thing. More power to Penske if they'll do it.

 

His first spell was cut short abruptly when his protege, Mark Donohue, fatally crashed in Austria. Wether Penske would have been up to it then we will never know, but his meticulous preperation style would have very well suited F1 of the day. I'm not sure if entering F1 as an independent team at the moment is a good idea, but I can't see them taking over from Mike Gascoigne and his boys either. As for Ford and General Motors, I highly doubt they will take on such an expensive challenge in this financial difficult (understatement) period for both companies.

He would make a great addition, but I think he should stick with what he knows best; American road racing and running Porsche's LMP program.

 

Theres no point entering today's F1 with a 80m$ budget. The mercedes pace cars will be faster !

 

That may not be the case in 08. Some of those new rules make F1 do-able for 80 mil. I hope he leaves the IRL too.

 

Where is this "rumor" being reported? I've looked all over the usual sources and dont see any word about it.

Were Penske to move back into F1, it would certainly have to come at the expense of one (if not more) of his stateside projects (IRL, ALMS or NASCAR).

He's got strong ties to Toyota, yes, but also to Honda, Porsche and Dodge. However, an American entrant the calibre of Penske would certainly be good
for everyone involved and believe me, he can afford more than an $80M budget.

BHW

 

Please corerct me if Iam wrong, but doesn't the Concorde aggreement state that there cannot be more than 12 teams in the championship?
With Super Aguri likely for '06, that makes 11, and is not the McLaren "B" team in for 07 ?
In other words, if there are 12, what are the odds of Bernie letting Roger in? (I know I would , if I were Bernie.......)
Anybody have any knowledge of this ?

hps

 

yikes...indeed that could happen,lol

 

Yes, but doesn't the Concorde Agreement end after 2006 or 2007 anyway? I really don't care for a limit, the more the merrier! I'd LOVE to go back to the early-mid 90's when you actually had to LIMIT the number of qualifying positions available because you have so many cars trying to make the field?

 

Is it not the situation right now that the grid has to consist of at least 20 cars and at the most 24. I think there is no limit to the amount of cars that can enter the practice/qualifying section. Under the current Concorde Agreement McLaren can't field a B-team because every team has to construct their own chassis.

 

I would have no doubt if Penske gets in F-1 he would be in to win... and make $$$.

With that poor state of F-1 now I can't see why he would get involved, unless he could win... Toyota? .... it would be interesting.... they did very well in the 70's!

 

Yes and yesss!

Concorde ends after 2007 and there is no plan to extend it.

 

In addition who is to say that all of teams that are in F1 right now will be around in two years? Remember Renault comes and goes, Honda does the same as well. Lets see who is still around in 08.

I'd love Penske to leave the IRL anyways as well.

 

I'd love all teams to leave the IRL and go back to CART.

 

Now that would be fantastic, the only other thing would be for CART to have races at some of the old race tracks (mixture of OVALS, Street, and Road Courses) as opposed to the Temporary Street courses they seem to be favoring. One last thing, perhaps they can have two engine and two chassis suppliers to liven up things. NO MORE IRL!!!!! That would be great.

 

I was standing at the end of the garage area at the Indy F1 race a couple of years ago looking at the Mercedes pace car. It was early in the day and there were no other people near the car. Up walk two guys, Bernie and Penske, chatting away. Guess what they were talking about? The lack of a US presence in F1. They then hopped in the pace car, with Penske driving, and did a couple of hot laps.

 

agreed to all

 

Can i get an Amen??????!!!!!!!! To hell with the IRL

 

In (my) a perfect world IRL and CART would reunite to become again the racing series CART was before the split.

Currently IRL is NASCAR with open wheels and CART the American version of F1. Combined they would stand for great racing again.