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In a response to the FIA floating the idea of another completely misguided "cost savings" plan by requiring a single engine formula, Ferrari has announced that if the rules go that way, they intend to leave.

After 58 years, the winningest team in F1 history seems to be the only one prepared to take any sort of stand against Mad Max Mosley and his completely distorted idea of what the top level of racing is supposed to be.

I have a serious issue with any sanctioning body going through the trouble of "cost saving measures" for the teams when they require a $20mill a year regitration fee for each car, not team, CAR!!! while requiring that each team field two cars, both with the same exact sponsorship. Then teams gt to pay additional fees to enter each race, each paddock pass for each member of the team, a paddock license for each traveling member of the team, and the host of other BS fees that the FIA likes to pile on.

If they want to save teams money because they fear for the smaller teams, how about making the racing more competitive so that the smaller teams have a shot at the money too. Allow single car teams and allow the existing two car teams to accept more than one primary livery for the two cars, thus introducing more opportunities for sponsorship and handing more of it to the smaller teams that struggle to put together the $300-700million dollar a year primary sponsorship deals that i takes to run a season at the back of the pack.

Spec series are fine at the lwoer ranks, they allow driver development and team evaluation outside of the realm of the haves and have nots. But for hte top level of motorsports, the most radically developed cars in the world, to turn into just another overpriced, overhyped, BS spec series, would be a tragedy of epic proportion.

Knowing the FIA, they won't give a flying ****. They will claim to have some other team lined up with the same money and somehow in their retarded little heads it will be good enough. Too bad money and ambition doesn't buy the prestige of the winningest team in the sport.

/Rant

-Tim