|
Something I have wondered is that under the current Concorde Agreement, 20 cars must participate in every race.
I'd say most of the remaining teams are stable, except for possibly Toro Rosso in 2010 and Force India. I think to stay strong and be more competitive, F1 needs to lure more manufacturers to come into the sport. The recent entries of BMW and Toyota as constructors, and re-entries of Honda and Renault are I think, good for the sport, and one of the things that I like to see is big name competitive, high budget teams competing against one another. I don't mind the long time "privateers" McLaren and Williams, and also enjoy cheering for the small guys (Sato passing Alonso last year was priceless) but in general, I like to see big name manufacturers in the sport.
Well, I went on a tangent there, but back to my point: there are potentially two more teams in F1 that could be in future trouble I predict as I mentioned above: the team that is now Force India has gone under so many ownership changes in the past few years and may be gone. What would happen if we lost another team and there were only 9 teams?
Would two teams run three cars or some such thing?
Finally, what is the FIA's problem with customer cars? Do they fear a spec series or think it is unfair to privateers? Privateers have a precedent of being in F1 from back in the day anyways. Is this customer car loophole going to be sealed in 2010 like I have heard?
|