Ferrari has threatened to quit Formula One if FIA President Max Mosley's proposal for a standard engine and transmission goes through.
Now, let me be clear:
There Is No Formula 1 Without Ferrari.
Not just one of the most iconic teams in the sport, Ferrari is the oldest racing team in Formula One.Despite negative reactions from all manufacturer teams, and the subsequent belief that Mosley's suggestion was not a true priority (do not Google to find Mosley's priorities), the FIA nonetheless confirmed on Monday that the drastic cost-cutting measure was moving ahead with interested suppliers invited to present their proposals before November 7th.
Ferrari agrees with the FIA and all the teams that cost-cutting measures must be taken, but state that a standard engine and transmission "would retract from from the entire (reason) of the sport with which Ferrari has been involved in 1950, a (reason for being) based principally on competition and technological development."
Frankly, I don't care about the cost-cuting. I cannot even afford a subscription to the Ferrari magazine; there is no chance I am going to end up near an F1 team. It just doesn't matter.
As Jeremy Korzeniewski wrote: "A Formula 1 world without Ferrari is practically unfathomable, as is seeing a Prancing Horse powered by a McLaren/Mercedes powerplant."
Mosley is an idiot (and I mean it about Googling Mosley's proclivities) and the FIA needs to be slapped.
PS. F1 is one of the sports I pretend not to care about in an agreement with my wife. When she does not watch football with me, I sneak off and watch F1. The half-time festivities may not be as fun, and there is too little overtaking, and the rules are bizarre, and the quest for parity creates dull races, and some of the circuits are just awful, and... Why am I watching this, again?
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