Liberty to present 2021 plans in Bahrain
Mar.28 - Bahrain will set the scene for the next round of tensions between F1 owner Liberty Media and angry top teams Ferrari and Mercedes.
The top teams are already threatening to quit formula one after 2020, if Liberty presses ahead with plans for a budget cap and significantly altered engine rules.
Publications including France's Le Figaro now report that Liberty Media intends to unveil its latest draft of its plans for 2021 and beyond in Bahrain.
It appears that Red Bull is at least on Liberty's side for now.
"We need a reduction in costs," Dr Helmut Marko is quoted as saying. "However it happens does not matter.
"No team is making money -- the business model is not sound or healthy."
And another Red Bull official, team boss Christian Horner, urges Liberty to take a hard line rather than be influenced by pressure.
"Liberty must impose its views and take strong decisions," he said. "Clearly, you will never get all of the teams to agree."
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I think that Ferrari is the face if F1 and without the tifosi little would be left of F1 but, there must be hard line regulations of parity if F1 is to survive.
We have all seen what has happened to the sport : it is now a procession behind the Mercedes cars because of Mercedes' economic power and the speed such money can buy. Anyone who thinks that Hamilton and Rosberg were simply the best drivers for the past 4 years is a fool .The Silver Arrows were and are a class above all of the other cars and anyone who has been paying attention AND is being intellectually honest knows that no one can compete with Mercedes and that the
" computer " error in Australia was a lie created to give the appearance of competition and hope where actually Mercedes knows that over the course of the season NO ONE can stay close to them and they are certain to get another constructors title and Hamilton another drivers title .Like an adult deliberately missing a shot to give a child the impression that he/she can actually win .e.
ZZZZZ ,the sound of watching F1 today .
I think that Ferrari has been the best thing that has ever happened to the whole of automobiles but, if they think they can compete with Mercedes they are being fools themselves and anyone who does not face the fact that in many major sports ( like Football, Basketball and Baseball ) regulations mandating some parity were needed to force actual competition and such regulations have been very successful is equally foolish. F1 can either learn from history or ignore it and eventually wither .
Liberty needs to act , act soon and institute PU or engine equality similar to Indycar mandates . Not that a team would rent a PU but, rather that the specs are mandated and HP testing required BEFORE each race . If you fail on the dyno you don't make it to the grid -simple .
You will see have fast the constructor toe the line and we get true competition on race day with EVERY team having the speed to win .The outcome will then be determined by the skill of the garage in setting the car up for each track and the skill and will of the driver on race day.
Is that not how racing should be or am I just too old-school ?
@RIKDI; your argument that “money buys speed” is not true; all you have to do is look at what happened to Honda recently and again a decade ago, Toyota a while back, Ford (via Jaguar) and is massively bigger than Mercedes financially. In addition, formula is not a pit team/garage car-set up competition; it is a design and engineering competition, proved on track. Turning F1 into IndyCar-light will kill it for good. If the rule changes often then teams can begin fresh again and in theory should yield different results. Indeed, every time there’s ia serious design formula change, the competition shakes up. We saw it with Ferrari in the Schumacher years, again with Vettel at Red Bull, and now Mercedes. What will kill F1 is quiet, boring ultra-safe racecars populated largely with pay drivers like Stroll and Serotkin. In addition, the ridiculous grid penalties need to go and the sport would be better with the return of the spare car. As things are going now, I would much rather watch a vintage F1 race with a grid full of screaming v12 or v10s.