[Fot] State of F1

[Andre Rousseau]

Love GtL and GTR2

Was bombing around Mosport last night in a TR4!

Did anyone suggest the drivers should makes less? Or all have a base  
salary and performance bonus.

A

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Andre Rousseau - andre at gt6.ca
68 Triumph GT6 MK1 http://www.gt6.ca

On 21-Oct-08, at 23:15, "Terry Stetler" <tlizzard at msn.com> wrote:

> Don't get me wrong here, I love the modern technical exercise that  
> is formula
> one.  However, if they price themselves out of being viable, or if the
> promoters decide that Bernie's costs are too high (France next  
> year?), then we
> have problems.
>
> I actually like your spending cap idea.  Let 'em have all the rpm  
> they want as
> well. How many engines twisting 20K rpm can you afford on a $50  
> million
> budget?
>
> I used to play GPL in the day, but something about the physics model  
> left me
> wanting.  Now I "drive" GTR2 with a GT Legends mod on it as well.   
> Ferrari 275
> GTB4 at Mid Ohio is a bit of a challenge.
> Terry Stetler.
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Bill Babcock<mailto:Billb at bnj.com>
>  To: Terry Stetler<mailto:tlizzard at msn.com>
>  Cc: 'Friends of Triumph'<mailto:fot at autox.team.net>
>  Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:24 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1
>
>
>  Hmmm. Sounds like 1965. I've played Grand Prix Legends (a videogame  
> with
> golden age F1 cars). You wind up in the wall about every other lap.
>
>
>  Cost cutting is very easy. Control the one thing that actually  
> affects
> cost--the availability of money. I'd love to see F1 done on a  
> budget. Say 50
> million per car. You'd have some very creative fiddling, but that's  
> just an
> accounting problem. A couple of tame economists and a handful off  
> former IRS
> agents and you'd be able to frame and manage the rules.
>
>
>  The current approaches are like trying to control the amount of  
> clothing
> your wife buys by limiting her underwear. Besides being dangerous to  
> your
> health to even attempt such a thing, the truth is that clothing  
> expands to fit
> all available closet space, just as TR3 parts do. If F1 doesn't  
> control the
> upper limits of expenditure, then expense will grow to use all  
> available
> funds--and even in these nervous times, there's a lot of money  
> available to
> top level F1 teams. Can a team with a $50 million budget compete  
> with one that
> has $500mm.  Obviously not.
>
>
>  McLaren and Ferrari would go nuts, but it would result in real racing
> throughout the grid--not just at the pointy end.
>
>
>  Pointless to speculate about such a thing I guess, that bell isn't  
> likely to
> get unrung.
>
>
>
>
>
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