I find that quite sad.In the 80s and 90s, GP racing was about little British teams sticking it up the big, famous, and well funded, established teams. With Mclaren and Williams struggling, I guess that era is now long gone....
I always take these stories with a grain of salt. It sounds like what they are saying is they were 13m pounds down in the last year. In actual fact, you would never know the full story, it could be way worse or it could just simply mean they were that amount short of projected turnover. Did, they have to use 13m of their own money to prop themselves up last year? Unlikely.
Formula 1 is boring now, I haven’t watched it for about 15 years. I do however think the r&d that comes out of it is good, I’m hoping they shelve F1 and the elite engineers in boredom turn to MGP...
Sadly Frank does have that reputation - especially after his accident. I was never a big fan of Williams, but I would be sad to see them leave F1.
How do you know it's boring if you don't watch it? I mean - it's definitely not what it was in the "glory days" and the FIA and FOCA aren't helping, but it is what it is. To be fair I find it dull compared to WEC (or MotoGP for that matter) as the commonality of the technology and the restrictive rules have killed the true competition making it impossible for anyone in the tradition of Colin Chapman or Ross Brawn to find innovative ways to gain an advantage. And the current aero rules make it impossible for two cars to run close together, which kills overtaking and close racing. I don't know what the solution is...
Quite honestly anyone closely associated with racing in a fairly big way all seem to be as arrogant as each other, tree huggers don’t win Formula 1 or Moto GP. As a generalisation those sort of people are cut from different cloth to you and I.
The solution is easy, it lacks excitement I think most agree. The millions spent in R&D each year should be spent creating a coliseum type arena. Each team then gets to fight it out, suggest bringing back lions etc to add to the drama. Let the games begin...
I have to say I haven't watched F1 since the Damon Hill days. Do I miss it? No. I watch enough traffic jams on the M6.
A Police car free environment? Not Silverstone, but the M6? In fact there are more speed guns in the pits at Silverstone than on the M6 - probably....allegedly...methinks... My mind is boggling now...... Remember pit stops for re-fuelling? They should bring that back to really hack off the greens!
