Now It's Getting Nasty - Ferrari Loses Bid to Prevent Cap, FIA Fires Back
 

This is turning into quite the soap opera.

Whose side are you on? Vote in the poll!

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BREAKING NEWS!-Ferrari lose cost cap injunction
 

Ferrari has lost its injunction against the FIA in which the Italian team claimed that the sport’s governing body could not introduce the controversial optional £40m budget cap for the 2010 season due to the team having the right to veto any such proposal.

The 60-minute hearing took place yesterday in Paris with both sides putting forward arguments for and against the way in which the cap had been introduced with the result being announced at lunchtime today.

Judge Jacques Gondran de Robert rejected the Italian team's claim because Ferrari is part of the World Council could have used it veto to vote against the changes.

The news means that the FIA budget cap will form the basis of ongoing discussions with the Formula One Teams’ Association who are looking to convince the FIA that their, as yet undefined, proposals are the way forward and not the preferred straight cap the governing body favours.

The Italian team today claimed that a leaked entry list for the 2010 championship is more appropriate for a GP3 series than Formula One.


"Wirth Research, Lola, USF1, Epsilon Euskadi, RML, Formtech, Campos, iSport: these are the names of the teams, which should compete in the two-tier Formula One wanted by Mosley," the team said on its official website.

"Can a World Championship with teams like them - with due respect - can have the same value as today's Formula One, where Ferrari, the big car manufacturers and teams, who created the history of this sport, compete? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it Formula GP3?"

Ferrari, along with Renault, Red Bull and Toyota are not expected to submit entries for the 2010 championship by the May 29th deadline.

Details to follow.

Earl ALEXANDER
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I'm a huge Ferrari fan. And I think it will be near impossible to police. But I think a cap would be good for the sport.

But then I also would have preferred the more traditional spelling of "neither" in your poll . . .

So what do I know?

Screw FIA. Time for Ferrari to get back to sports car racing.

You're coming across as "pompus" now, Russ. :lol:

F1 without Ferrari is like a sundae without ice cream.

That's the Old English form that is often overlooked by less intelligent folks.


:smilie:

The sport surely won't be the same without Ferrari on the grid and I have a feeling that if they leave, a lot of other high profile teams will follow suit. This is indeed a dark day for F1...

Then again, the budget cap only seems to have an impact on development and testing; both of which is already highly restricted. Employee salaries (including the drivers) are not included in this budget cap, AFAIK. Travel, hospitality, and marketing costs aren't included under the budget cap either.

The only thing i can think of to completely resolve this is to separate F1 into smaller subclasses based on budgets?

NO SH!T!!! Too bad I'm max'd out on rep b/c I owe you some.