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Originally Posted by csirl
Ifs and buts..........the fact is that Brawn are there.
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And even so, it's not the most boring year ever. Go and read about some other years - 2002, 2004, 1952-53
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Are you suggesting that short term profiteering at the expense of the sports fan base is better than looking after the fan base? I think you're proving my point.
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No, but the fact is the old track are off the calendar for a reason, and just because the teams might go back to some of them with their new series doesn't mean they will. For all you know, within a couple of years of that series, we'll end up back in Sakhir and Shanghai again
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Before Bernie & Max we had nearly 40 cars for many races.
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And do you know why we don't have them anymore? Because it wasn't economical to run a team that wasn't racing. It's called survival of the fittest. A team like Life was never going to make it unless they built a car that was capable of racing, because who's going to sponsor a team that isn't racing?
Pre-quali might sound nice now but it makes no commercial sense whatsoever
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No so, the manufacturers are being forced out in favour of the old boy network. The core of F1 used to be sports car manufacturers from all over Europe - UK, Italy, Germany, France etc. Ferrari, Lotus, Renault, Mercedes, AUDI (autounion), Alfa Romeo, etc. etc.
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What?
Look at budgets from the last 15 years and you will see that since manufacturers have started to come back in with their own teams, budgets have skyrocketed
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Dont agree - alternative is to make the cars safer, not neutering the circuits.
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You can't do one and not the other. It doesn't work like that. Tarmac run-off is a necessary evil and so are chicanes
Wrong. The FIA have removed it. Go look at the rules
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Manufacturers cant make money unless F1 is competitive and attractive to the fans.
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How much money manufacturers make overall and whether F1 is competitive and attractive are unrelated. Whether or not manufacturers keep pouring money in to their F1 teams usually has a lot to do with how competitive they are, not how attractive the sport is. Or, like Honda, they'll pull out in a PR move to make it look like they're cutting their losses