No Ferrari or Reanult in 2010 F1 Season?

[JohnW8]

I just read an article that Ferrari, Toyota RedBull and now Renault will remove themselves from the 2010 F1 Championship unless a budget cap of $40Million dollars to attract new teams is shelved. The teams under the budget cap would have more technical freedom and the teams over the cap would have more restrictions. Answer me this, Why wouldn't Ferrari and the others not adopt the lesser budget of $40 Million and enjoy more technical freedom?

To me if I had more advantages that cost less money, i'd be a fool for not taking advantage of it.

Please discuss amongst yourselves.

[TouringBubble]

Because Ferrari spends way more than $40m and still can't keep up with Brawn ...

[kilgojr]

Slight correction, its 40 million British Pounds (roughly US$62 million)

The argument from Red Bull, Toyota, and Ferrari lies in a two tier system that is being set up for 2010.

And if you want to argue spending money and not having results look at Toyota, their budget is the largest in F1 and the Toyota chassis has never proven itself.

I don't think anyone can argue against spending less money. All of these companies still have a BoD to report to. Ferrari would probably have an easier time convincing their Board that they need unlimited funds to race because their company was built as a race team first. They only sell cars to fund their racing. As opposed to say a Toyota or the now missing Honda.

The arguments I have seen so far is that the regulations are not concrete. You can have greater technical freedom if you spend 40 million pounds, but that 40 million is only for what is "physically attached to the chassis" or something vague like that. It does not include "motorhomes" (which is a joke, have you seen Ferrari's and RedBull Racing's new digs for this season), driver salaries, or engines, or anything that is not associated with the chassis itself.

From what has occured so far this season you can see the Regulations and how vague they are. The teams with the "double diffuser" at the start of the season were 1. Brawn 2. Toyota and 3. Williams. All three of these teams were not in the group of team designers that came up with the regulations to make the cars "less aero" sensitive and provide for more passing. So that is the reason they were able to look at the regs and come up with something different. If you look at the goings-on of F1 and Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley (head honchos) you know the politics that are at work. These regulations are always vague, and there are always loopholes. I think it comes down to the fact that Ferrari, RedBull, Toyota, and Renault are making political statements to try to get something concrete in place now before they start spending too much of their budgets and are suddenly capped from Testing during the season, etc.