£40m Budget Cap and Controversies
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Sounds pretty much like a breakaway series if FOTA doesn't chicken out at the last minute. Ferrari and Red Bull will have lengthy court sessions due to the contracts though if they decide to go ahead. Anyway, if next year's F1 will consist of only Williams, Force India and GP3 teams, then I don't see what hope F1 would have anymore. Most people want to stick with the same star drivers and top teams.
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Nazi orgy F1 ruining gang wrote:FOTA says, "The new rules dumb down the sport". Not so, the 2009 regulations introduced greater technical freedom in several areas. The 2010 Regulations will allow even greater freedom. Compare this with the FOTA proposals: almost no testing, no KERS, homologated gearbox, homologated bodywork, limitations on factory activities, enforced shutdowns and so on.
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Bernie needs to sort this out, this is getting ridiculous. I don't believe what each side is saying, they're both lying to get the public on their side. Bernie holds the real power in the sport, he won't let F1 split apart but for god's sake the teams and the FIA better get this sorted out quickly.
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Formula 1 will be split apart sadly. I see Toyota and Renault leaving the sport, only to give Briatore an opportunity to hand over Renault team. Then, 7 teams with maybe another candidate teams will establish a new series, in which 3 cars of each team will race. Or they may take a sabbatical year to organize a much better series. I don't see in these circumstances any of parties will step back. This is not all about Formula 1 at all, this is all about power.
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And in 2012 they'll be a reunion where they kiss and make up
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You think F1 will split apart? It won't, they'll reach a compromise eventually, money will be what convinces the two sides to stick together, maybe Bernie will give the teams more money.
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It's all about that, that FIA with Max wants to show ''who's the boss'' in there.
How childish... and this battle will tear F1 apart
Max: THINK WITH COMMON SENSE OR GO TO THE ROCKING CHAIR!
How childish... and this battle will tear F1 apart
Max: THINK WITH COMMON SENSE OR GO TO THE ROCKING CHAIR!
"F1 won't change me" -Jenson Button, just weeks before dumping his girlfriend of five years and buying a Ferrari
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For me Jos the Boss.
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What's crucial is what will Ferrari do. The other teams can't organize a breakaway championship without Ferrari, but FIA & F~0~M will do everything to ensure Ferrari's contract is as proof as it can be. Everyone's gone so far now that it'd be surprising if they backed down now. They had a chance to have a compromise but it didn't seem to work out.
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The introduction of a medal system was simply the FIA's response to a McLaren winning. Their desire for Ferrari's dominance is as damaging as it is illogical. F1 lost tens of thousands of fans during the reign of Schumi and yet the FIA is still behind them. Even worse is this budget cap, F1 is being pulled apart from the inside. The teams have zero say in anything whatsoever. Why shouldn't the person in charge of F1 be chosen by F1 and not by some old, wrinkly, bowl-hair-cutted, Britton.
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I hope they won't chicken now. If they let Max win now, it will never stop.
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haha! off topic though ... If they had that desire this situation wouldn't have ariseisherbin wrote:The introduction of a medal system was simply the FIA's response to a McLaren winning. Their desire for Ferrari's dominance is as damaging as it is illogical. F1 lost tens of thousands of fans during the reign of Schumi and yet the FIA is still behind them. Even worse is this budget cap, F1 is being pulled apart from the inside. The teams have zero say in anything whatsoever. Why shouldn't the person in charge of F1 be chosen by F1 and not by some old, wrinkly, bowl-hair-cutted, Britton.
Its sad to see FOTA's softening stand but still clear 'no' to budget cap.
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