Originally Posted by BinaryDad:
“I've seen some rumblings that Mateschitz reckons he's spent enough on F1 and that RBR's participation in F1 has done its job. This means both RBR and TR would be sold on, and it has nothing to do with the state of engines or competitiveness.
If this is true, it looks like an exit strategy that doesn't cause the Red Bull brand to lose face, rather than a threat.”
“I've seen some rumblings that Mateschitz reckons he's spent enough on F1 and that RBR's participation in F1 has done its job. This means both RBR and TR would be sold on, and it has nothing to do with the state of engines or competitiveness.
If this is true, it looks like an exit strategy that doesn't cause the Red Bull brand to lose face, rather than a threat.”
That's true enough and, if correct, is a thoroughly underhanded way of going about it.
Originally Posted by Forza Ferrari:
“BTW Bernie backs Red Bulls complaints and hes got the biggest interest to kid on F1 is still good.”
“BTW Bernie backs Red Bulls complaints and hes got the biggest interest to kid on F1 is still good.”
Bernie's biggest interest is Bernie and Bernie's bank account.
If F1 teams embrace Horner's suggestions it simply provides Bernie with a justification for not increasing the team budgets.
In the real world, we've already seen how half-assed the results can be if teams rely on CFD rather than wind-tunnels and F1 fans are a fickle bunch.
They don't want their sport to die, they don't want it to move forward, they complain when the cars are barely any faster than GP2 cars and then they f**king-well complain when some of the teams do make their cars faster when others don't.
And, let's not forget that Bernie is the guy who insisted that teams which can't afford to race in F1 have no right to be there and, as a result of that philosophy, we're missing at least 4 cars from the grid this year.
If the money from the Sporting Fund was divided up differently it'd certainly create much whining from Ferrari, McLaren and, possibly, Mercedes but it it was divided up more fairly it could quite easily provide 14 teams with a bigger budget than Williams currently enjoys so it's reasonable to assume that we'd have 28 reasonable cars on the circuit providing good racing.
Trouble is, none of them might be red or silver.




