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Ferrari denounces 'war' against carmakers
Contrary to what has been given as a decisivereason by Honda, BMW, and Toyota for justifying their departures fromFormula One, Ferrari insists that the real cause is not the economiccrisis but rather the constant hammering the sport's authorities havedealt car manufacturers.
"In reality the steady trickle of desertion is more the result of a waragainst the big car manufacturers by those who managed the sport, thanthe effects of the economy that affected Formula 1 over the lastyears," a Ferrari statement issued on Wednesday declared.
The Italian team went so far as to compare the situation in F1 to Agatha Christie's famous novel Ten Little Indians.
"In Christie's detective novel the guilty person is only discoveredwhen everybody else is dead, one after the other. Do we want to waituntil this happens or should we write Formula 1's book with a differentclosing chapter?"
Ferrari blamed the political environment for the replacement of majormanufacturers with independent operations which it believes cannot liveup to the standards of Formula One, and even suggested that some maynot have the funds to compete a full season.
"Over the last 12 months Honda, BMW, Bridgestone and this morning Toyota announced their retirements. In exchange, if one could call it that,Manor, Lotus (because of the team of Colin Chapman, Jim Clark andAyrton Senna, to name a few, there is hardly more than the name), USF1and Campos Meta arrived," the Ferrari statement elaborated.
"You might say 'same-same' because it is enough if there areparticipants. But that's not entirely true and then we've got to see ifnext year we'll be really as many in Bahrain for the first startinggrid of the 2010 season and how many will make it to the end of theseason."
Along with Ferrari, the only carmakers which remain involved in F1 areMercedes and Renault – although the latter is reportedly reviewing itsinvolvement beyond the 2010 season.
The 2010 grid is expected to count 13 teams, of which four will be making their debut. |
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Post time 5-11-2009 02:59 PM
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