Saturday, May 16, 2009

F1 Budget Cap and 2 Tier Technology on Track

F1 is enforcing a budget cap to marginalise some big team, while helping smaller team to excel in a race. I think this is a very stupid idea, and this will cause a lot of F1 fans to divert their interest elsewhere.

Since 50s, F1 is all about technology, and whoever have the most powerful and modern technology shall win the F1 championship because they have the best of the best. One of the team that competed since day one in F1 is Ferrari. Because of their success, FIA is trying anything to pull them back and put them in the back foot in the F1 race.

Ferrari is paying for their huge success in F1, and now they are being targeted. Similar fate goes to Renault, Toyota and McLaren because these are the few teams with huge budget. By implementing a GBP 40 mil cap, I think teams like redbull, Sauber, Force India etc would enjoy a greater technology liniency, while the big team must operate with a limited technology.

This would cause the race to be unfair and from my point of view, Ferrari, Renault and Toyota is very rightly to pull out from F1 for good. This will bring the field to more even technology sharing, and also a more fair races among them.

Max mosley said F1 can survive without Ferrari, and I fully agree. There's no one bigger than the organisation itself, and this applies to FIA as well. But this will cause some inattractiveness to the sport, and many fans would turn their back on the sport because of off field issue, not because of boring races.

As an F1 fan, I would rather watch a boring race, with high technology, rather than watching an uneven and unfair race field of cars. It's like comparing a Proton cars with the luxury of Audi, Merc and BMW. What a pity!

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