F1 News
- June 8, 2006
Honda and Toyota on the Engine Freeze
ITV-F1 are running an article along similar line to my earlier one about the engine freeze in 2008.
They go further with interviews with Nick Fry from Honda, "The message that we and other manufacturers would convey is that while we have submitted entries for the 2008 championship, there are still no guarantees that we will be there, We are not compelled to be in Formula 1. Most car manufacturers do other things, whether it’s rallying, DTM or whatever. F1 is important to us, but the world will not come to an end if we stop doing it. People need to understand that.”
Toyota are said to be feeling the same way, and have apparetly stated that they will not continue in F1 unless 'certain core values' remain.
Max has said, At the moment [the engines] are all on more or less the same level. Therefore we have to freeze them as quickly as possible. If we give them time, than the people with a lot of money will have the opportunity to pull out a bit of a lead.”
Max, have you forgot that F1 IS A TECHNOLOGY SPORT!, people watch it because it is the cutting edge of car design and performance.
Yes I like the fact that smaller teams compete, but the sport will just stagnate if you take all the ingenuity out of it. You have already band all the 'gadgets' in the sport like ABS etc. Why not introduce someform of legislation that limit's the amount that engine manufacturers can charge smaller teams to use engine or other outsourced parts.
When will the FIA realise that if they ban all of the R&D that goes on inside F1, the manufacturers will pull out and spend the budget elsewhere, Indycart, WRC and Le-Mans all would love for the manufacturers currently in F1 to join their championships.
