Are Ferrari spitting the dummy

[bodgit]

F1 'can survive without Ferrari'

Formula 1 could go on without Ferrari according to Max Mosley, president of motorsport's governing body, the FIA.

The FIA has announced a £40m budget cap for teams from 2010, aspects of which Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo labelled "fundamentally unfair".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/8030781.stm

[DCM]

from what I understand, the $40m budget cap, is voluntary, but the teams will have far more freedom in design, if a team doesn't want to stick to $40m, then they have to work in realms of the 2009 rules.

[jim76]

the 40m doesn't include driver salaries and some other bits though so it doesn't seem like a major cut to me. If you have two drivers with combined salay of £20m on top of this then it is still around £60-70m total budget which isn't that far off what most teams run on (with the exception of Ferrari and Maclaren, and probably Toyota).

[telboy]

I thought teams like Mclaren and Ferrari were running budgets of around £140million?

At the end of the day, the rules are the same for everyone. And, like this year, the way that you manage those rules is up to you.
Look at Brawn, Toyota and Williams. They looked at the rules closer than the rest, and they have good cars now.

I think its a good way to even up the gap between the big teams and the smaller ones. The teams that run to the 2010 rules will get more testing, so that can only be a good thing for the small teams.


PLUS!!!!!!!!! No refuelling!! YAY!!
Thank god for that!
Look how close the races have been this year......until the pitstops, then the field spreads out. No refuelling can only be a good thing.

[glypo]

I don't think they are.

The budget cut is far to harsh. £80m would be workable for the time being. Budget restrictions area good idea for sure, but they need to be realistic.

How many skilled people (Aerodynamicists, Vehicle dynamicists etc) are going to made redundant right in the middle of a recession because of the FIA....

[Gaz_Stanton]

Looking at the overview of the rules I can't see it affecting the bigger teams that much as all that will be needed is a bit of creative accounting and some crafty re-organisation.
Could be quite a grey area to define a team's cost that 'had no influence on its performance' when they have other departments that could be developing the same technology for another application within the company.