Two or three car teams?

[Mephistopheles]

Michele Alboreto, Christian Fittipaldi, Alessandro Zanardi, Giancarlo Fisichella, Fernando Alonso, Jarno Trulli, Jos Verstappen, Anthony Davidson, Mark Webber and let us not forget Johnny Carwash himself Giovanni Lavaggi the list goes on they all came into F1 through Minardi maybe some are not great drivers but they are all household names and F1 was better for having them...

 

[Mephistopheles]

Manufacturers are modern day F1's bread and butter. The disappearance of Caterham and Marussia says absolutely nothing to me about the sporting nature of Formula One.

If that were true then there would be only two teams on the grid Ferrari and Mercedes as all the rest are not manufacturing teams..

 

[KekeTheKing]

Amazing that all these fine examples of minnows that provided first drives for a few World Champs are no longer on the grid. Did their demise signal a death knell for F1? Of course not. Backmarkers come and go. It's the nature of the tailenders. Caterham may be back in another guise next year and Gene Haas will take on the World in 2016. Minnow lovers fear not.

If that were true then there would be only two teams on the grid Ferrari and Mercedes as all the rest are not manufacturing teams..

Formula One would be in an extremely sorry state without the engine manufacturers. It would be more of a historic series with people dusting off Judd V8's and Hart Turbos.

If Honda can achieve any level of success than you can be certain more manufacturers will be lured in at the priceless opportunity to both develop extraordinarily road-relevant technology and to broaden their international exposure in the pinnacle of motorsport.

 

[KekeTheKing]

because it says absolutely everything to me.

The lack of success and ultimate demise of F1's modern minnows, Caterham and Marussia is just a symptom of the cutthroat nature of the competition that resides within the sport. Caterham had 5 seasons to crack into the points and were unable to do so. Why? Because the other teams were simply better. In soccer parlance they would have been relegated.

Formula One is a brutal game. They couldn't cut it. Bernie is a buffoon, but he's actually right about Caterham's current situation. Nobody really gave a shit about Caterham until the Administrators stepped in. Then it was all doom and gloom and hyperbolic statements about the downfall of the sport and whatnot. We now know that Mr Fernandes and his Malaysian cohorts have hidden behind a network of shell companies in order to shirk their creditors and failed even to compensate their employees for nearly 2 months. And other than Trullis coming together at Monaco 2010, Webber being launched at Valencia, and Fireman Heikki in Singapore, I can scarcely remember a single moment of excitement produced by the outfit.

If an actual privateer team falls then there may be cause for concern. Three car teams are not the way forward for F1, they are simply a fail-safe for Bernie and his contractual obligations.

 

[Titch]

Three cars, two cars, who cares? Ultimately BE will do what he wants, the big corporate teams will do what they want, and we get to watch cars driving endlessly round in circles, before falling asleep out of sheer boredom.

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