[Smittoh]

with all the money being wasted by the new f1 applicants

why not have all teams from 11th in the championship build a car and have a 3 round shout out and the teams with the most points gets the spots

Lotus-Cosworth HRT-Cosworth Virgin-Cosworth all could lost their spot on the grid for 2011

[SeelaypeKet]

with all the money being wasted by the new f1 applicants

why not have all teams from 11th in the championship build a car and have a 3 round shout out and the teams with the most points gets the spots

Lotus-Cosworth HRT-Cosworth Virgin-Cosworth all could lost their spot on the grid for 2011

Because that would waste even more money?

[ViagraFeller]

Not instead of but if there is no compatitive new team then why not allow Ferrari for example to run a third car for Raikkonen at Spa for example?

As it goes I wouldn't mind seeing a "guest car" at each GP as long as the car scored no championship points and was alternated at each GP. Rossi in a Ferrari at Monza, Sebastian Loeb in a RBR. Could be good fun. However as MS is showing there is no hope any of these guys could be on the pace.

This is a conundrum but the most important thing is at least to prevent any new team from being like HRT. Too hard on HRT in my opinion. They are within 107% and haven't folded (yet). There have been plenty of worse attempts at F1.

[Smittoh]

http://www.racers-republic.com/f1/ne...art-withdrawal
Todt explains ART withdrawal
We haven't been able to do that. We wanted to have long-term guarantees about our presence in Formula One and we had some technical partners and economic investors, but not enough to know that we had two or three years' time. So we decided to withdraw our candidacy, because if we do a thing we want to do it well. And this way we were not able to do it well."

[Vobomei]

He's right though. Don't kid yourself, there are many occasions where teams would employ these tactics, and then just claim the guy holding up the pack just was 'struggling with the tyres'.

Precisely.
Races could end up being won on a Saturday if we have a third car acting as an orchestrator for a two car finish.

[VonErmad4]

Not instead of but if there is no compatitive new team then why not allow Ferrari for example to run a third car for Raikkonen at Spa for example?

I can already feel the disgust to hearing Alonso complaining two Stella on the radio, not once but twice per race!
I think this is a good enough reason not to let Ferrari run 3 cars.

[Zebrabitch]

Williams will soon be a prime target for a buy out by a manufacturer and the terms of the deal will be to keep the Williams name alive.

Future potential take over names

Honda Williams
BMW Williams
Audi/VW Williams
Toyota Williams

[HotDolly]

Williams will soon be a prime target for a buy out by a manufacturer and the terms of the deal will be to keep the Williams name alive.

Future potential take over names

Honda Williams
BMW Williams
Audi/VW Williams
Toyota Williams

That'll never happen, why do you think BMW's Mario Thiessen had that falling out with Sir Frank then ended up going off and buying Sauber?

Plain and simple, BMW had their hearts on buying Williams but Sir Frank refused to sell up. Weve all seen what happens when manufacturers get disillusioned with F1, they pull out and put jobs at risk, any fecebt minded person would never let that happen.

[ljq0AYOV]

What a "Puke" Brawn is. This lying cheater now has called for no more new teams. He is scared the JV is going to come back and kick the cheaters ass in a new car. He should just worry about his own crap and how to cheat for the "Queen of all Champions"

[VonErmad4]

What a "Puke" Brawn is. This lying cheater now has called for no more new teams. He is scared the JV is going to come back and kick the cheaters ass in a new car. He should just worry about his own crap and how to cheat for the "Queen of all Champions"

fousto never disappoints with his clueless rants.

[enurneAcourdy]

What a "Puke" Brawn is. This lying cheater now has called for no more new teams. He is scared the JV is going to come back and kick the cheaters ass in a new car. He should just worry about his own crap and how to cheat for the "Queen of all Champions"

'The JV' might just do that

[exchpaypalgold]

Williams will soon be a prime target for a buy out by a manufacturer and the terms of the deal will be to keep the Williams name alive.

Future potential take over names

Honda Williams
BMW Williams
Audi/VW Williams
Toyota Williams

BMW....been there, done that, got the t-shirt, then broke up.

Audi/VW though - if Williams was to go the partnering manufacturer route I would say that would be the most likely one. They've already been on record as saying if they were to enter F1 it would most likely be as an engine supplier rather than going the whole works team route. Of course that "if" is a massive one.

Toyota - Well they should have done that instead of quitting, or sooner even.

[Gulauur]

Anybody know if the FIA still plan on picking the 13th team plus a reserve?

[clubcughSheet]

Assuming one of the applicants meets their entry criteria then I guess they will. The FIA should make it sooner rather than later to give the new team as much time as possible to prepare for next season. Of course Lotus was only given it's grid spot in September last year.

[blodwarttufla]

Any news if the new team will be announced during the Belgium weekend.

[Percocetti]

Any news if the new team will be announced during the Belgium weekend.

A number of sites are reporting that it will be over the next few days, yes. I don't really see why it's taken this long, the first decision last year was done much sooner, by now we were onto choosing the replacement for BMW. Though admittedly the first choice last year did just seem to be whichever three teams would follow Max the closest.

[ljq0AYOV]

In a perfect world Epsilion merges with HrT Keep Sergio Rinland and JV gets the new entry.

[clubcughSheet]

In a perfect world Epsilion merges with HrT Keep Sergio Rinland and JV gets the new entry.

There have been some rumours of that in the past few days, with Epsilon contacting Hispania about this possibility. It would probably be better that way as combining the two operations should provide a stronger entry (rather like Villeneuve and Durango combining their bids).

[blodwarttufla]

Still no news, when oh when.....

[Percocetti]

That's weird. Maybe Jacques' bribe cheque hasn't cleared yet.