All the world is still wondering about the withdrawal of Honda, the settlement of the store appears to have left Ross Brawn and Nick Fry. Last spoke of three potential buyers and Bernie Ecclestone has apparently mixed into the sales conversations and communicated. Meanwhile, Max Mosley is known to come to the motor unit.
It's not a question whether he will come and not when. The question is, how many team join. Mosley has been the Cosworth engine forged the contract. So that shop, who was also responsible for the Cosworth DFV, and currently owned by Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven is. They should now put an engine in 2010 on the legs, which can be used as a motor unit. But can the FIA on the manufacturers a back door.
Either you can buy the Cosworth package for nearly 8 million euros (2 million for the three-year contract, 6 million per season), or you can fax it to the specifications of the engine plant and building its own engine. The FIA also tried as the NASCAR system. Very, very strict requirements for the construction of the engine, so the performance differences are not too large. But that also does not always work, shows the trouble you have with Toyota in NASCAR. Their engines are to make in spite of all restrictions up to 50 horsepower.
Until a few days, I still thought that the unity of the Formula One motor would break for good. Now it looks more as if the engine can save the series. If it not already too late. Ecclestone said today in a number of interviews from a "warning shot" for the series and the fact that you are not deeper into the crisis was, than any other industry. But when I see how many companies solve their problems just so that they have to take on the part of the state money, then you can make itself seriously worried about what will happen to the series.
Nor an exit of a team incapable of withstanding the Formula One so easily - is clear. The air is very, very thin. 2009 you will be able to change hardly anything, but for 2010 must urgently consider something.
ALMS - Audi and Penske away
And on it goes with the bad news. Audi has announced that the new Audi R15 in the new year will take exactly 36 hours race. 12 in Sebring, 24 Hours of Le Mans. If you arrive as. The ALMS returns to the back, however, the Audi does not voluntarily, but because you have to save. This is unfortunate. Is it worth it at all, a completely new car for Le Mans?
Penske has meanwhile announced that 2009 will start in the GrandAm. That series, therefore, which has just been bought by NASCAR. At the start you go with the former Porsche men Dumas and Bernhardt, in the rear of the chassis Riley infected but again, a Porsche engine. The retreat was probably necessary because his Porsche LMP2 program allegedly evaporated and Penske DHL has lost a major sponsor since withdrawing from the U.S. market. The other two pilots LMP2, Long and Maassen will probably parked in the GT2.
No good news for the ALMS. And that is just in the year in the Acura in the LMP1. The LMP2 orphaned so pretty.
And what else?
Sorry about the wrong message in terms of Speedcar Series. € But the program has changed so many times in the last few days that I've simply lost track of time. This weekend, so no speed cars, but supposedly in January.
On the weekend driving the V8 Supercar series in Australia their last race of the season. And the last time you can admire the course of Oran Park, make the strange architecture must place a new housing development. The city of Sydney is growing so fast, that the area is now occupied by the course and complete it anyway, you can hardly go racing. Pity about the course that was built in 1962 and has been so kind tradition. There is, however, the plan that the price rise a few miles further than exact replica again.
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I nibble a little degree of self is able to process all these expressions of today. Real hard.
The ALMS prototype class will probably be an Acura vs. Be privateers event. Too bad the matches this year between the Penske Porsche, Audi and Acura were just great.
And the F1 ... let's hope that the whole is fairly positive development and amounts to a catharsis. The motor unit could possibly cause that we get (not short, but rather the medium term) and fewer manufacturers and may be doing more private teams and that the sums of money to fall back slightly, which are at play. The same applies to Ecclestone claims to the organizers, because it has run out after the recent developments namely, the same effect if they do not want to let the series die. That would be the positive variety. I want to think about the negative at all ... :-/
Who will save the engine unit for? Williams, who are in debt up to our ears? Toro Rosso, who wanted to win and, despite Ferrari engine no? Maybe the team with more championship points than owners in recent years?
One thing is clear, the manufacturers it causes problems in the external display and a great excuse for getting out. And if I can not imagine perhaps that McLaren can solve somehow out of the Daimler group, so that's when the former Sauber and Benetton teams hard to imagine in the integrated manufacturers and completely impossible.
The 4 1/2 Mohicans one must also continue to focus on the same NASCAR, and put on 4 +-car team, but otherwise the track is empty arg.
My tip: F1 as it should be deleted, GP2 change its name, and has been both a leading leather-Max Series with standard material, as well as space for his F2.
This "back door" for the manufacturer of course means that the engine is not one unit, and thus not "come". What comes is a close regulation, and the option to purchase an already existing under these regulations built engine. This is not a revolution, it was close technical regulations before as well, actually all the time.
And I think it is time for drastic unlikely that the "big" teams actually buy the engine rather than develop their own, and perhaps one or two "smaller" team develops itself rather Let's hope that the Cosworth for all then counted.
If I had at one of the automotive companies something to say, the motor unit for the final reason I would get out. There is nothing more than a single engine it is. The alleged concession to the manufacturers? Motor according to predefined schedules, which may be better in any way as the standard unit? A farce. In any case, F1 is the pinnacle so definitely not more. Is a top class but then it probably just did not in the foreseeable future.
I see now personal at first glance not the big problem with the motor unit.
Great teams like Ferrari and McLaren have millions invested in new developments. Some also have used similar materials such as titanium and expensive stuff. The small teams could just as lagging behind. Now, when all teams have the same engine, has perhaps even a small team the chance to ride again. I only say NASCAR. As an example: A few years ago (around 2000 rum) there was a season in which the first 18 races of 18 different drivers have won. So in the first 18 races no driver won 2 times. Something similar was achieved in the F1 before.
However - many F1 teams then focus on safety with the aerodynamics, so be good but again the big, rich team front drive away.
@ Jochen:
The "stimulus" for a manufacturer to engarieren in F1, is actually always been the need to provide the highest level in competition with other an engineering top product on the legs. This is a very crucial element that sporty aura to "formula one" contributes greatly, and that the manufacturer makes up a significant marketing message. Without this element would not be a Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari, or who make even more with the F1 - hence the considerable resistance to these firms, which forces the upper end to the loophole described. This is precisely the "huge problem" with a motor unit. It damaged the status of F1 as a pinnacle of motor sport, it takes a large part of their high standards and makes them a considerable step unattractive. And a development in such a direction is at least worthy of discussion time. A unit with a loud series of pre-built parts of equal opportunity is not a "formula one", something is a feature of young / "feeder" series in which drivers are being recruited or selected. So we can not just quickly proposed as an easy to make F1 GP2, which is so unrealistic that it is not even to mention more illusory.
The way I see it also nona. It makes for big corporations simply make no sense if you can not use its resources and therefore small "garage team" have the same chance and you lose again against them. The message that gives the viewers would be unacceptable for the manufacturer. Anyway, there have always been richer and poorer teams. On the idea of having to halt to the former partout, nobody would have come sooner.