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Oh well good bye and thank you, also don`t forget to close the door behind you.
they’re only threatening so far: http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=45860
its only a threat and so are toyota, its a bluff
Aargh
are they throwing their toys out the pram, oh dear what a shame never mind.
I have to say its actually been a better season so far than the last dozen or so. So nice to see some of the “smaller” teams up the front.
its the smaller teams that would benifit from the budget cap
No longer Bernie and Max’s blue-eyed boys?
Off you go then, and leave your special deal on the table as you go.
Almost as bad loosers as Man United - must be a red thing!!!
Yup, “throwing toys out of the pram” just about sums it up.
£40 mill is reportedly about a third of what they have spent to have a pretty indifferent start to the season so far with possibly much the same again to get through the rest of the season if they have to do the heavy re design that they and McLaren look as if they need.
Meanwhile the Brawn budget is reportedly £32/36 mill for the season.
Mind you, how much can you trust press figures? It’s not as if teams publish them in full a disclosure balance sheet.
Here’s praying that they pull out of the Premier League!
It’s what I have come to expect from F1, politics, threats and behaviour more suitable to a five year having a tantrum.
bad losers.
get rid of them and bring on the day the small guys win such as force india
That’s such horrendous news for motorsports fans I think the point is being missed, I presume if Toyota leaves as well maybe McLaren/Renault may follow.F1 has always been meant to be the pinnacle of motorsport engineering and a good show, it was never meant to be about keeping things to budget and the only reason it’s so exciting to watch new teams like Brawn win it’s because they are beating the heritage teams which made F1 what it is today.
If we imagine F1 without Ferrari/McLaren/Williams/Renault I don’t think anyone would care to tune in to watch Brawn beat Force India, sponsorship and television rights income will plummet too. Meh.
I’d prefer it if they split Formula 1 in to two classes kinda like Supersport and Superbike and make the races shorter but have 2 races (1 race for each class) in the same day. One class for the budget teams and another class for the full flavour with much less restrictions but I’m sure they will never do that because it’s obvious which class the viewers would end up watching.
Imagine if in MotoGP the smaller private teams were offered to run with a smaller budget and given an advantage with the restrictions as opposed to the factory teams, it would be mayhem and thats what I fear will happen to Formula 1.And in the meantime while all this is going on, A1 keeps getting better and better 
So ferrari are leaving, ciao, obviously Max did not do a very good job of whipping them into shape.
Or was it ferrari did not like the crack of the whip from max??
Answer on a postcard to:
Max Mosley, C/O The Whipping club of London, somewhere in London.
Looks like Renault are threatening to pull out now too. Out of interest howmuch does it cost to run a motoGP team for a season, do you think? Obviously it depends on the team but someone low key like kawasaki (if/when they were in it)
looks like red bull and torro rosso are threatening to pul out too along with ferrari, toyota and renault. soon they’ll all protest and the plan is bound top be scrapped
LOL some comments make me laugh.
Ferrari SAY they WILL pull out IF the proposed rule changes go ahead. So did Renault (officially), Toyota and both Red Bull teams (not officially yet).
In fact, it’s only the Mercedes teams really that have commented. This hasn’t got anything to do with the current season.
The proposals are frankly stupid. The proposed 2-level rules is only going to make the politics element worse and it doesn’t make sense. Like somebody mentioned above, you may as well have 2 separate series. F1 has always been about inovation, and if there’s no such an opportunity for the manufacturer teams, what’s the point?
It’ll all sort itself out but it’s a real shame, because the season so far has been really good and Max Mosley is trying his hardest best to ruin it again.
If I were to sit down and write a list of all the teams that have come and gone since I first started watching GP racing* I’d lay big money that those gone well out number those on the current grid.
If the season costs were capped, assuming we were in ordinary economic times, and half a dozen teams pulled out, I’d bet some new (perhaps even some old) faces would fill the gaps. Example? Lola could perhaps manage the constrained budget.
In short, it’s all borrocks and just the teams playing against Max Moseley.
Let’s hope the teams win, just to see the back of Max.
- That was the year that Lorenzo Bandini died in the Monaco GP.