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Marussia go into administration and will miss the US and Brazil GPs.
Marussia go into administration and will miss the US and Brazil GPs.
It's time for Ecclestone to start making changes. For F1 to thrive we need a packed grid with competitive cars. There's enough money to go around and to ensure this.
As Brundle mentioned yesterday, the NFL probably the worlds richest sport shares the money equally.
Ferrari are given more appearance money than some teams season budget, which, if you want 11 teams competing can't be right.
Great interview with Bob Fernley on Sky yesterday - when asked what's happening for the future he said Force India have no idea and they, and the other lower budget teams are not included in discussions and decisions made by the big five. Mercs view that they will spend what they want and if other teams can't afford to compete its not their problem is not going to help the future of the sport.
There should be a broadly level 'basic' structure. Prize money, and then whatever sponsorship you can bring in. Ferrari getting a disproportionately large income because of their prestige and bargaining power is just mad.
Also make the 'resource' limits stricter (they've worked well). Numbers of personel at the track, engine units etc.
Apparently Ferrari bring so much money and interest in the sport Bernie is convinced F1 might not survive without them.
There has to be a way to bring the cost down, reducing staff is certainly one of them, changing the power units this year didn't help. I would prefer to see the money spread more evenly. How about allowing single car teams or as Mario Andretti mentioned, allowing guest drivers at certain races. They need to get more cars on the track not less.
On another note, this is an improvement:
http://www.f1technical.net/development/459
And Caterham looking for crowd funding to compete in the last race.Marussia officially gone for good.