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F1 2014

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blues_r_best said:
Marussia go into administration and will miss the US and Brazil GPs.
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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.
 
Pubey said:
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.
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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.
 
steveo said:
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.
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You've got to say that is a pretty silly attitude. If the other teams drop out, and aren't replaced because costs are too high, then they won't have anyone to race against.
 
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.
 
Pubey said:
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.
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Totally agree.
 
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
 
steveo said:
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
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They may well do so. But F1 must also help Ferrari. Would reducing their appearance money lead to them leaving F1, or would leaving F1 adversely impact their business? I don't know the true answer, but it can't hurt Ferrari to be in the public eye every other week for about 9 months of the year.

There should be no appearance money, only prize money (and sponsorship of course). Ferrari's appearance money may go some way to explain how completely mediocre they have been for a very long time; they have less incentive to actually try to win anything because their income is pretty much guaranteed anyway.
 
A real shame what happened to the smaller teams, I knew Caterham were struggling but didn't expect Marussia to vanish as well, so soon after Jules accident as well.

Bernie set about recruiting new teams with smaller budgets to get the grid up to 24/26 but then introduced the new regs for this season which made engine and tech costs a lot higher.

The big teams are making noises like it's not their problem and the smaller teams are complaining they want a bigger share of the pot so they must be heading for some kind of showdown on this soon.

Against that backdrop I must say well done to Williams this season for outdoing Ferrari and McLaren.
 
Looking like Marussia might be at Abu Dhabi, also Jules Bianchi has been brought out of his coma.
 
Great news about Bianchi, especially that he's been flown back from Japan to France.
 
londonblue said:
Vettel to replace Alonso:

BBC
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In my opinion this is a bad move for Ferrari as this year has possibly proved that Vettel isn't as good as we all thought - or Ricciardo is better than we thought.

Will be interesting to see how Vettell compares with Raikkonen next year.
 
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