Brawn wants 'solution' to Ferrari quit threat
Mar.5 - Ross Brawn says he will work to "find a solution" that ends Ferrari's F1 quit threat.
Brawn was once the technical boss during Ferrari's ultra-successful Michael Schumacher era, but now at Liberty Media he is vowing to improve the sport's racing, spectacle and costs.
A row between F1 owner Liberty and Sergio Marchionne resulted in the Ferrari president's post-2020 quit threat, but Brawn insists the Maranello team is "very important" to formula one.
"I worked for them for ten years and carry them in my heart still," he told Auto Motor und Sport.
"Ferrari is an icon and I hope we will find a solution that will work for everyone. A great sport is great for everyone and we do not want Ferrari to leave," Brawn added.
However, Liberty intends to even the income playing field beyond 2020 and distribute power more evenly up and down the pitlane.
"The sport should be fair to all participants, including Ferrari" he said.
"Yes it's true that Ferrari has veto rights, but to my knowledge they never used it. Perhaps they waved it around."
As for the racing, Brawn pointed to MotoGP as an example of a series that is not as fast as formula one, but is arguably more exciting.
"A MotoGP bike is 30 seconds slower but it still seems incredibly fast," he said.
"It's more important to have cars that look good and can compete against one another. Does anyone complain that the times are 15 seconds slower when it rains?" Brawn added.
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Its sickening when a swollen-headed, self-absorbed, egotistical, self-imortant participant or team use cry-baby or bully-boy tactics to attempt to get their way, or believe that they are bigger than the sport or series in which they compete.
Let the over-rated, barely relevant, greedy little red ponies scamper off, they have hardly done anything of note in the past 10 years.
You are a fucking moron. You think merc wants to race Renault? You think Porsche or Audi want to compete with force India? They want to beat Ferrari. Ford beat Ferrari at lemans in the 60s and haven't shut the fuck up about it since. You are a moron. If they leave. F1 dies. Because you may not like it but ya Ferrari is bigger than F1. You moron.
Resorting to childish name-calling is testament to your monumental lack of intelligence. Nothing in your asinine tirade bears any hint of a rational thought. Evidently you are still bitter from the wounds inflicted by the dominant Silver Arrows as they remorselessly ripped through the thin veneer of attempting title challenge by beloved idols.
As a racing entity, Ferrari is a relic of a bygone era. They appear to be making some sort of revival but its absolutely laughable to think that they are bigger than F1. Until last year, they have barely been able to win a race in years, far less the damn series. You're a typical over-zealous deluded fanatic who is stuck in a Ferrari past glory red haze.
Like you Ferrari are stuck in this absurd wonderland and expect prestige to continue to let them earn more from the F1 prize money than their performances warrant. This model is becoming increasingly unjustifiable and unsustainable. Such nonesense belongs only in elitist circles and Liberty Media is fully aware and will not allow themselves to be beld to ransom for too long. Surely not by a perennial underachieving entityb with a self-indulgent superiority complex.
As I mentioned earlier and reiterate, let the little ponies gallop away. Teams, champions and dynasties rise and fall but sports move on. Four time Football World Cup Champions Italy will miss the finals for the first time since 1958. Guess what, the show will go on blissfully without them and few apart from their fans will shed tears be over their absence.
If F1 dies big deal, motorsports will continue, another series will emerge.
Jazzy is spot on. Fi has given more prestige to Ferrari over the years than the other war around. How else would thwy justify the price of their road cars?
But regardless it would be bad for F1 to loose them and RB has to find a win - win solution.
I have bèen watching F1 for 51 years now and can tell you that there has never been a level playing field. Just think of the dominance of McLaren in the days of Prost and Laura when thay won 15 out of 16 races in one season. As to cost cutting, big teams will always find means to dominate the opposition with mega budgets.
F1 has never looked better and seen so much competition down the field. My hope is that it will not turn into another hybrid of NASCAR, where the only excitement is spectacular crashes, or Formula E which is even more boring. So standardisation and a level playing field will destroy the greatest motor show on earth.
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