I was thinking with it being the end of the season, how cool would it be to have and run your own F1 team, just like Jackie Stewart and Eddie Jordan. It is only when you start looking at this side that you realise that F1 is pure and simply only a business. The excitement and adrenaline that makes it a sport is bit a side and finical decisions are made.Main Point to you all is; 'Super Aguri has posted a £4.5 million loss in first year'.
How does a company consume that loss?? Super Aguri is one of the smallest teams, it has fewer than 100 staff - compare that to Ferrari with 1,000 on payroll! How can you pos
sibly compete? How long have Toyota now been in F1? They even took a year before they entered while they were testing the car. They have one of the biggest budgets but where are the results I ask??? (Personally if I was running the team I wouldn't have had Schumacher - what an underachievement, living in the shadows of a highly successful brother - he really had no chance).So I write this blog to ask others to post their views and feelings on running an F1 team. What would you change if you could?
To start it off – I would change;-
1. Would have got rid of R Schumacher out of Toyota.
2. Would have got rid of crappy Fischella out of Renault.
3. Give Anthony Davison a better car – what a cracking job he has done for Super Aguri this season. Please someone give him a chance next season.
1 comment:
AS this post is being ignored, I thought I would give it a try: Super Aguri, appear to have a loss of 4.5 mil, the reality is probably that they have a 4.5 mil loss of profit, as opposed to a straight loss off the bottom line, this, in turn, will be helped by tax offsets available to any company, It usually does`nt help a fledgling company to be profitable in its early years, as it creates expectations at the inland revenue.
People who invest in Motor sports are really using it as a promotion, and therefore, gain tax credits on that investment, so although the team seems to have a headline loss, the very act of publishing it, is another promotion, so win, win.
To change F1 at a very basic level is very difficult as it is a huge financial affair,with a basic rule of "you got money, your`e in" Button when he was double dealing actually put the williams accounts in the green, whe they were set to make a loss! however, putting that aside, I would say Make the drivers championship the primary championship, and this determine the following year`s pit lane layout, as the importance of the pit lane, especially for strategy, cannot be taken lightly. Make it a rule that the cars aero allows draughting, and rewards the brave (monaco, tunnel, way to go??!!) IF a win is possible a driver is required, to take it, even if it fucks the team, then there can be no team orders. Allow customer cars, this will bring new blood into the game,and increase competitiveness, and ensure that the whole thing is cheaper in the long run, not to mention new talent which will force the older end to be much sharper, or get out. and finally, for now You have to have a tyre war!!! Don`t care if these are bad ideas, but let`s have ideas!!!!!!!
Post a Comment