📰 Auto News Ferrari officially to quit Formula 1 in 2010 if new rules are enacted

[Mook]

Ferrari has announced that it won't be on the Formula One grid in 2010 if the FIA's new rules are enacted. As reported previously, Ferrari joins BMW-Sauber, McLaren-Mercedes, Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Renault in opposing the proposed regulations.

In Ferrari's release (posted after the break), the automaker said that it "does not intend [to enter] its cars in the 2010 F1 Championship" and "The Board considers that if this is the regulatory framework for Formula 1 in the future, then the reasons underlying Ferrari's uninterrupted participation in the World Championship over the last 60 years – the only constructor to have taken part ever since its inception in 1950 – would come to a close."

The new FIA regulations would cap spending at $60 million, not including driver salaries, engine costs and marketing expenses, or teams could ignore the cap and suffer from performance restrictions, thus creating a "two-tier" F1. FIA President, Max Mosley, believes that the new spending limits would allow more teams to enter the championship, but at what cost for the existing teams?

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[skeezer]

They're saying how 2 US teams will be in for next year.

Seems as though Ferrari has just been having a shitty year.

 

[Mook]

ferrari isnt the only team that wants to bail now

 

[skeezer]

The teams that don't have the rear diffuser technology on their cars.

It's all Braun and Redbull.

I LOVE ME SOME REDBULL.

 

[Mook]

i'm just reporting the news. i'll exit this thread now b/c i dont want to be called a bandwagon fan again

 

[skeezer]

I just watch the races, I don't keep much track of any internet hype. I'm a week to week dude that listens to Peter Windsor talk his ass off.

Did you see the Spanish GP? You've got both Force India cars crashing around the first corner, Massa not pitting for gas and losing points, while Kimi constantly complaining that his KERS isn't working. These teams apparently don't have their shit together. They might as well get out because they don't stand a chance.

 

[Mook]

i just cheer for braun

 

[skeezer]

I'm down with Redbull

 

[skeezer]

I wish Remy Martin would have a team.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

Ferrari is like the Yankees, you either love em or hate em. But it's not as much fun to watch Honda, i mean Braun dominate with McLaren and Ferrari doing bad. Now having those three teams duke it out with all at full strength would be fantastic.

 

[Alacran]

toyota is in on this too. F1 screwed up this season allowing some teams to have rear diffusers forcing the rest to spen $$$ developing their own.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

toyota is in on this too. F1 screwed up this season allowing some teams to have rear diffusers forcing the rest to spen $$$ developing their own.

So technical innovations and pushing the rules to their limits isn't what F1 is all about?

 

[IDAFC21]

toyota is in on this too. F1 screwed up this season allowing some teams to have rear diffusers forcing the rest to spen $$$ developing their own.

F1 didnt screw up. The rules were in place on how you could develop your car. Some teams just took advantage of some interpretations of those rules. Brawn HIMSELF had a plan drafted up a year ago that would have stopped him from doing exactly what he did, but the F1 "gods" rejected it.

Now with proposed budget caps on car development for next year, its no wonder these teams are saying FU. and this KERS crap is just a complete waste of time and causes more problems then it solves.

There are also talks of there being NO refueling next year also. Yeah. that'll be fun. Cars will be weighted down to shit w/ kers crap, AND have to have a full ass tank of gas to make sure they can get to the end of the race. These F1 big wigs need to fucking die already.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

This is a huge dilemma for F1. Do you make it more accessible so more teams can come in and make it more exciting but limit how much technical innovation can be done? It can almost turn into NASCAR where you have a set car and the key is to adjust it better than the next team.

Or do you let it be a technical fuck fest where you have the top tier teams (or team when Schumacher was racing) and then the second class ones being back markers?

Finding a middle ground is going to piss people off.

 

[IDAFC21]

Flava Flavio himself said that the budget cap would be like opening a discount store in a high end exclusive shopping center it was a funny statement, but its true

One thing that has me to all the engineers however is that the FIA put all these restrictions into place to slow these cars down this year, and they're still faster than ever. The engineers will find speed where they can w/ what they can. But still, if you try and limit too many things like the FIA is doing, wheres the sport in it?

And with more of the traditional circuits being cut out of the schedule and replaced w/ asian and middle eastern venues, its only further removing what the F1 once was

 

[Poopshinanigans]

Can we please for fucks sake have one race at Road America? Or have an F1 car of recent history go around there?

 

[IDAFC21]

 

[bluzohh6]

kers sucks ass and its only a matter of time before someone gets fried in a car. Going green has no place in racing

 

[Poopshinanigans]

kers sucks ass and its only a matter of time before someone gets fried in a car. Going green has no place in racing

Can current and voltage travel through carbon fiber? Or are you talking more for the people in the pit crew?

We need a cleaner way of powering these cars, something close to perpetual motion. Can we power F1 cars with these?

 

[Alacran]

Renault is joining the fray.

F1 did fuck up this season. bigger wing in front with smaller wing in the rear = more overtaking (passing for the novice). Rear diffuser = more rear wing area and therefore inhibits overtaking. Basically, the rear diffuser is creating more dirty air, the car in the back does not have the downforce to make the pass.

Also, it does not help that all four tires are the same width, that causes oversteer as well. Next year the front tires will be narrower.

Now they are saying that the KURS is frying the PCM on the cars. Not sure how much truth there is to that.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

Renault is joining the fray.

F1 did fuck up this season. bigger wing in front with smaller wing in the rear = more overtaking (passing for the novice). Rear diffuser = more rear wing area and therefore inhibits overtaking. Basically, the rear diffuser is creating more dirty air, the car in the back does not have the downforce to make the pass.

Also, it does not help that all four tires are the same width, that causes oversteer as well. Next year the front tires will be narrower.

Now they are saying that the KURS is frying the PCM on the cars. Not sure how much truth there is to that.

That KERS shit frying the computer is bullshit, you'd think with as much circuitry that they have in there they could easily figure that out.

 

[Alacran]

IDK the KERS system is something like 600 volts and the module is 24 volts. If there is a short somewhere or not enough shielding you can damage a module.

 

[CamaroSS]

i just cheer for braun

bandwagon spotted, improper spelling bandwagon at that

 

[Mook]

well i guess its just another sport i wont talk to you or paul about again

 

[Poopshinanigans]

well i guess its just another sport i wont talk to you or paul about again

Talk to your therapist about it.