Marchionne: F1 boss Ross Brawn 'behaves like Moses'
Dec.20 - Sergio Marchionne has sustained his attack on F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn.
At Ferrari's Christmas lunch, the Ferrari president said he had threatened to pull the Italian marque out of F1 because Brawn is "looking at ways that are against the DNA" of the sport.
He is now quoted as saying by Speed Week: "I have a good relationship with Chase Carey. We saw each other 10 days ago and we had a very open dialogue.
"What I do not care for is when Ross Brawn comes along and announces that grid girls have to go. And how the engines and chassis should be.
"He behaves like Moses reading the Ten Commandments. And when I call Moses' boss, he tells me that it was just his personal opinion.
"So I don't want to participate in such a discourse. I want to sit down and talk to those involved. It's not helpful to involve the media," Marchionne added.
The Ferrari president revealed that engines are currently sold to customers for EUR 15 million.
"When I hear Ross Brawn say engines are too complicated, I ask 'What does he want for 15 million?'" said Marchionne.
"Liberty Media is right when they say we need to improve the show. I was not excited with what was offered at the last race, where virtually nothing happened for 50 laps.
"But that's not the fault of the engines.
"In an ideal world I would throw all the rules out of the window. Instead, we get suggestions that would lead to all the cars differing only in colour.
"If this is the formula one of the future, then Ferrari will only need three seconds to decide about leaving," Marchionne said.
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Ferrari belongs to the history and is just a name of a brand.
F1 can go on and live without Ferrari the same with the Monza track its time to say goodbye
to that track that killed the fastest drivers in history.
Exactly like the footboll can live without the Italian footboll team, just realise Italians you are
not the center of anything any longer.
The discussion about how to make F1 a better show is a critical one. But it needs to take place a monks the teams in the drivers and management not in the media. If Ross Braun cannot keep his mouth shut and keep stirring up things in the media then he becomes a negative as opposed to a positive. If he does not have the respect and confidence of those he’s dealing with in reshaping formula 1 then he is useless