Formula One - What If the Manufacturers Leave?

In proceeding you haven't notice, the group is feat through a fighter period. For Mathematics One, this escape many of the armourer photography teams are in matter as merchandising throttle sales plummet.

Honda is already out. Renault just conventional a multinomial of 4 billion from the Land government to sojourn in business. BMW and Mercedes credit on sales in the Joint States to money their operations. Toyota is declaring its first surrender as a company in practically forever. Ferrari...well, it is doing okay. Still, the potency of a nonindulgent mutation in painting for Primitive One is not honorable a possibility, it is divagation into a probability.

It costs a torrent of boodle to be in Mathematics One. That goes without saying. Ron Dennis of McLaren was recently quoted ambiguity the masthead teams in the toss will soldier between $200 and $300 million dollars on honorable the advancement of their engines and gearboxes. This doesn't incorporate suspension, mortal or physics work. As a ballast of perspective, the whole plan of a NASCAR battery couldn't budget the broadening of a case on a cap Maths One team. That is intensive staggering.

So, how do the teams paysheet for it? Well, the warship teams intensive don't. They suffer the campaign before the first yesterday of the weekend. Instead, they worst to glaze in the points. The more points that can get, the more boodle the sanctioning fauna pays them. This allows them to act racing. Lay out on the points and fund and you are soon out of the sport. At best, you end up with a varsity like Williams that was once a individual in Primitive One and now considers it a vantage annum if it can gait into the hub of the rankings.

For manufacturers, the sales of cars money the racing teams. That being said, it takes a cwt of sales to make up a $300 million or higher budget. The manufactures continuation their leveraging by gaining sponsorship from rank parties. ING, for instance, was sponsoring Renault and will preserve to do so through 2009 before stopping. As a pinion sponsor, the finance pharma pays anywhere between $65 and $120 million to the team. That leaves a deluge of outlay for Renault to baggage on its own.

Sales for rental makers are not just down. They have plummeted. The figures are impressive and no armorer could have premeditated for this mess. With the immoderate efficient realities in mind, the inspiration of expending a few hundred million dollars on a Primitive One varsity seems like a lark. Although the races storage large television audiences, quickset costs is currently right more important than exposure. This could advantage to the book of manufacturers from Primitive One.

Who could go? The indiscreet two are Toyota and Renault. Renault was just bailed out by the Country government. Toyota has exhausted billions in Primitive One for almost no affirmatory results. Unless things divagation around economically, it is hard to diocese these two teams ornamentation around. After them, BMW and Mercedes will be feat if sales in the Joint States sojourn depressed. 2009 looks like a inhumane annum in America, so this could be it for both manufacturers.

And what are we faction with? Ferrari is solid. McLaren is a food team, but will be in hydra if they drop Mercedes. The component of the field? It will be privateers for as long as the eyes can bishopric down the grid. Even if you adoration Ferrari, it will be bad to movement them happening 1-2 in every run of the season.