Ferrari issues quit threat over 2010 F1 rules

YES!

i agree, i hope they do. id love to see the marketing wizards at ferrari try to dig themselves out of that hole. commercial suicide

What could be interesting is that with the ?40m budget cap it makes it more affordable for other manufacturers to enter, I could see players like VAG (Volkswagen Audi Group) almost look at this as a cheap way to advertise on one of their many brands worldwide for that price plus the reserch and development for future technologies in there cars? Porsche could stop production on the Panarama and enter F1! Tata could bring back another Jaguar outfit. You can see now why this needs to be done Bernie knows F1 is a sport but its solely relies on marketing and advertising for its survival, so it needs to stay with in reach of affordability.

There are more motor racing series than just F1. Ferrari could join LeMans, which might actually be a better fit for Ferrari. Lamborgini survive perfectly fine without having a F1 team. Having a two-tier F1 series is ridiculous, and Mosley knows it. He's made the advantages of the budget capped teams so great that other teams could never compete against them. But for teams like Ferrari, BMW, Toyota and even Red Bull, they can't just cut their budget to in some cases 1/10th of their current spending in 7 months. There is technologies and designs that would have been budgeted for the next few years that would exceed the budget cap, they would have to be scrapped or greatly delayed under the proposed budget cap at great financial cost to the bigger teams. Ferrari, along with Toyota and Red Bull have stated that they wanted to be consulted in the budget cap idea so that a value could be determined that did not adversely affect existing teams, yet made it easier for smaller teams to compete. This is Formula 1, the pinnacle of motorsport, it is supposed to be about developing the most advanced race cars and technologies. If you can't afford to keep up in Formula 1, there are plenty of other motorsports which are cheaper that teams could join. Get rid of all the restrictions, and just let the teams make the best cars they can. That way we'll see true innovation, rather than these one year on, one year off faltering steps like KERS and slick tires to grooved tires and back to slick tires. This constant change of rules is one reason F1 is so expensive, if the rules were stabilised for at least a few years between changes, then the teams wouldn't have to drastically redesign the car every year. The sooner the other teams make a break-away series that gets rid of Mosley and all his stupid ideas the better.