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I hope the new proposal gets flushed. What is the point of making this stand on the cap, if you only delay giving Max what he wants for 1 year. Oh, next year will be 100M...but the following is 45M? That is one hell of a cut in a single year. What is the point of a 45M Formula one? The teams who had to change their diffusers were claiming it cost damn near that much to redesign? So, if you were in a car that didn't have the diffuser at the beginning of this year....and we had Max's cap....you are supposed to just finish in the last row all year long because you are not allowed to redesign due to cost? That is racing?
No. I will absolutely lose interest if this becomes a sport where the rear teams can't compete because their engineering didn't get it right the first time....without testing. A cap is the wrong road to go down. Make the racing cheaper by not requiring the teams to front run brand new technology (KERS) and stop changing the damn rules every year. That will lower the cost....this cap is going to turn into a three ring circus of cheating, investigations and impossible to prove accusations. The teams need to stick together and tell Max to get stuffed (with a whip if that's his thing)
there you go! 
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
Prodrive lodges F1 entry for 2010
By Simon Strang Friday, May 29th 2009, 09:56 GMT
David Richards is preparing to re-enter the Formula 1 arena after lodging an entry under the Prodrive banner with the FIA for the 2010 world championship.
The team is the third new entry to formally apply for one of the three places currently available on the 2010 grid, with Campos Meta1 and Team US F1 having already submitted their entries.
Lola is also expected to submit an entry before the end of today's cut-off.
Richards' decision to enter F1 now is believed to have been prompted by the fact that a drive to forge a budget cap in the sport has one again made it commercially viable for his company to be competitive - conditions Richards has consistently held over entering F1.
Prodrive's entry comes 18 months after its last attempt to enter F1 was scuppered by the ban on customer chassis; the team having negotiated a deal to source cars from McLaren.
The link with McLaren could remain this time around in the form of a technical partnership, although details of the engine package are still yet to be revealed. Force India has similar ties to McLaren in the current season, and uses engines from Mercedes-Benz.
Finance for the project has been assisted by Middle-East-based finance, logistics and property company Dar, which formed the backbone of the Richards-led conglomerate that paid $925 million for a majority stake in Aston Martin in 2007.
Assuming that the team's entry is accepted, it will mark Richards' return to the F1 paddock for the first time since 2004, when he was stood down as team principal of BAR following the team's purchase by Honda.
Prior to his three-year stint with BAR he'd served for one year as director of Benetton F1 in 1997.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75671
MAY 29, 2009
Aston Martin to enter F1 in 2012
Aston Martin is to enter F1 from 2012 as a fully-fledged manufacturer entrant, according to a report in Autocar magazine. The company will put its name on a new F1 team to be launched by Prodrive. The new F1 team announced will run as Prodrive in 2010, before being rebranding as Aston Martin in 2012. Aston Martin’s Prodrive-run sportscar racing programmes will continue. It is expected that the Prodrive team will get much assistance from McLaren Racing and will almost certainly use Mercedes-Benz engines. The cars will be built at Prodrive's Banbury factory. The team is understood to have picked up two big sponsors in the Middle East.
Aston Martin will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1913 and it has long had an association with racing, dating back to the 1920s when Count Louis Zborowski, a wealthy British-based American racing driver, was a supporter of the firm. Zborowski was killed at Monza in 1924, driving a Mercedes, but the racing tradition continued under the patronage of Augustus Bertelli,a although the emphasis switched to sports cars. It was only after World War II that Aston Martin's sporting history really took off, following the purchase of the company and its merger with Lagonda to form Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, under the guidance of David Brown. The company entered and won the Spa 24 Hours in 1948 and appeared at Le Mans in 1949. Throughout the 1950s Aston Martin would battle for victory in the classic French race but it was not until 1959 that the team scored an historic 1-2 finish with Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby leading home Maurice Trintignant and Paul Frere.
In 1959 Brown decided to enter Grand Prix racing again with the Ted Cutting-designed DBR4/250 being built at the Aston Martin factory in Feltham. Unfortunately, the car was an obsolete front-engined model and Salvadori and Shelby struggled to be competitive, although Salvadori's second place on the car's debut in the International Trophy was promising.
The cars were redesigned for 1960 and Salvadori was joined by Maurice Trintignant but performance did not improve and the company gave up F1 at the end of the year.
yeh Aston Martin is about 80% brand, 20% product. If they damage the brand, they are in huge trouble. Speaking of which, I thought they were pretty much in huge trouble anyway...
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