Ferrari Blames ‘War Against Big Car Manufacturers’ for Exits

We may have heard the first shot in the next battle for Formula One. While others are expressing “regret” over Toyota’s exit—and that includes the official FOTA response—Ferrari is not holding back on its response today. In the Toyota exit news, Maranello sees the eventual “death” of all the teams, and by extension, Formula One, if there is not serious changes. And Ferrari is not buying the “economic downturn” argument one bit. The team presents this argument politely enough, with an extended reference to Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians,” but that does not mask the team’s point: F1 is slowly being killed off. Here it is, in full : We want a different closing chapter Maranello, 4 November 2009 – It seem...

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