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"Easier for new manufacturers to enter" - Cowell


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Poll: Will any new manufacturers enter the sport in the next 4 years? (65 member(s) have cast votes)

Will any new manufacturers enter the sport in the next 4 years?

  1. Nah (44 votes [67.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 67.69%

  2. Yes my friend... I believe it will happen (12 votes [18.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.46%

  3. I don't care MERC POWER!!!!!!!!!! (1 votes [1.54%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.54%

  4. Honda sucks, nothing to do with the poll, they just suck and McLaren too (8 votes [12.31%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.31%

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#51 jjcale

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 18:39

When he said this was he sat in an armchair stroking a fluffy white cat ..... and did he follow up with an echoing    BWA HA HA HA !!



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#52 uffen

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 19:35

I've long thought the "need" for Manufacturers (OEMs) in F1 was a mistake. The new engines are so complex and expensive the budgets of huge OEMs are needed. This is not what I prefer. I prefer racing companies to be in racing. Cosworth, Judd, Hart, Ferrari (who used to be a racing company that financed itself with road cars before being absorbed by FIAT). Sure sometimes OEMs came in (BMW, Renault, etc.) but they did so on a playing field level with the others. Now the playing field is so rarefied that F1 is at the mercy of the big dollar OEMs. Now we're realising that the same thing is happening to the teams - they must be OEMs (or OEM-equivalent financially) to survive, much less get anywhere.

This is not a healthy place for a racing series to regulate itself into - the OEMs can flit in and out too easily. They don't need F1; F1 shouldn't need them.

 

So, Mr. Cowell is correct, they can "easily" enter, but this has always been the case. The trouble is - no one else can.


Edited by uffen, 12 February 2016 - 19:37.


#53 Jimisgod

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 22:20

It's easier for them to enter...

 

...and then be screwed over by the stupid token system, ala Honda



#54 OO7

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 22:24

It's easier for them to enter...

 

...and then be screwed over by the stupid token system, ala Honda

The token system will be rescinded from 2017.



#55 oetzi

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 22:32

I bet he's glad there's punctuation in the thread title.

#56 shonguiz

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Posted 13 February 2016 - 01:50

He chose to look at it from one side and not the other. What he says is factual but half of the story is missing. Yet I will give him a free pass because his team has done an incredible job and got only crap in return for it. Some bit of partial situation assessment is something that I can live with.

#57 Vettelari

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Posted 13 February 2016 - 02:08

Whether you are a fan of "OEM"s joining F1 or not, here is my point. A rapidly growing automotive manufacturer wanting to enter into the world of motorsports like Mahindra has absolutely no desire or ambition to start a Formula 1 team. Even though there's already a team on the grid (Force India) with ties to your country & the fact they continue to try and have a race there. Instead they are more than happy to join Formula E and MotoGP. I feel like in the past F1 was the goal for auto manufacturers wanting to promote their sports cars & increase their marketing. That does not seem to be the current line of thinking for whatever reason. I'm sure the insane budgets required is one reason, but far from the only reason holding back auto makers.



#58 Kalmake

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Posted 13 February 2016 - 03:06

Mahindra makes Moto3 bikes, not MotoGP. Moto3 and Formula E are just millions. If they fail at those, it doesn't make much of a dent. F1 is billions.