Ferrari Mailing List: Re: F1, was: Cost of Ferrari Ownership

[LarryT (l02turner]

Rick wrote<<NASCAR is the model, technology
> leadership is a ruse>>

Whoops!  There goes another bowl of Skittles! ;-)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:03 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] F1, was: Cost of Ferrari Ownership


> Folks please remember; This is show business, not
> sport.  There is no moral conscious, just greed.  The
> flatter the owners can make the playing field, the
> closer the points.  The closer the points, the longer
> a "customer" may watch the series - and the sponsors.
> Like it or not, NASCAR is the model, technology
> leadership is a ruse.
>
> rick
>
> --- Grahame Reinthal <grahame [at] reinthal.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > > It seems ironic that just as Audi wins Le Mans
> > with a diesel
> > > and a whole panoply of emerging technological
> > solutions to
> > > automotive propulsion are on the horizon F1
> > chooses to freeze
> > > any further power- plant development for 10 years.
> >
> > Totally agree -  seems any technology freeze is
> > antithetic to what F1 should
> > be!
> >
> > > like so many brightly colored Skittles being
> > flushed down a
> > > toilet bowl.
> >
> > ...a very evocative image
>
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