Since the FIA wants to install budget caps to the F1 teams for next year’s series, Ferrari has put its baby feet down and threatened to quit if they continue to go ahead with the proposal. Their is an optional 40 million pound limit on spending, which Ferrari and Toyota are criticizing.
The reason for the fuss is because if Ferrari continues to spend the ludicrous amount they currently do, they will have limited engine development, wind tunnel testing and track time.
“If these indispensable principles are not respected and if the regulations adopted for 2010 will not change, then Ferrari does not intend to enter its cars in the next Formula 1 world championship,
(40 million GBP is about 60.9 million U.S. dollars.) Yay, love to see this multi-national corporate nonsense...wouldn't you, as a business, want to spend LESS money that will return the same revenue you were receiving earlier? I fear a two tier system about to happen...I hope I'm wrong. Anyone smell a CART/IRL/USAC-type fiasco about to unfold?
If Ferrari keep whining like little girls then Alonso will fit in perfectly. Who knows, a little more cry babying and Flav might join them as team principal.
[...] Italians. Now all they have to do is pray that Ferrari won’t actually go through with their threat of quitting Formula [...]