Tony Fernandes threatens to quit F1

[Monkey boy 1]

An interesting article in our local paper.

TF threatens to quit F1 if Caterham don't get any Champoinship points this year

http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/formula_one_2_1884/to...

Will it be Bye Bye Tony ?

[Scuffers]

It's a fair point, they have not exactly progressed....

[G0ldfysh]

Bye Tony.
It's been emotional.

[ajprice]

Would he shut down the whole thing, or sell it to somebody else?

It would make a 'way in' to F1 for another non-F1 team (if that was allowed, not sure what the situation is these days with teams being sold off).

Or an existing team could buy it, Minardi was bought out by Red Bull and transferred to being Toro Rosso, but that was a while ago now.

[HustleRussell]

It!'a all a bit embarrassing if you ask me. Who wants to be in a team where the guy running it has such a defeatist attitude. It gives the impression that F1 was just a fleeting fancy of his which hasn't gone his way so he's got bored (which may well be the case). He could've at least put some spin on it and emphasised the positives of the team and it's ambitions. This looks like a total PR / internal relations / management fail.

[Scuffers]

HustleRussell said:

It!'a all a bit embarrassing if you ask me. Who wants to be in a team where the guy running it has such a defeatist attitude. It gives the impression that F1 was just a fleeting fancy of his which hasn't gone his way so he's got bored (which may well be the case). He could've at least put some spin on it and emphasised the positives of the team and it's ambitions. This looks like a total PR / internal relations / management fail.

defeatist attitude?

So he is supposedly accept shockingly bad performance?

[Forbes82]

HustleRussell said:

It!'a all a bit embarrassing if you ask me. Who wants to be in a team where the guy running it has such a defeatist attitude. It gives the impression that F1 was just a fleeting fancy of his which hasn't gone his way so he's got bored (which may well be the case). He could've at least put some spin on it and emphasised the positives of the team and it's ambitions. This looks like a total PR / internal relations / management fail.

Yeah. He also just seems to not quite 'get' f1. He talks some rubbish.

''We’ve given you the best infrastructure, the best potential drivers, but it is now down to all of you to go and do it.''

They have probably about the worst infrastructure/facilities, 30% of the staff of the big teams and driver-wise they have an unproven rookie who hasn't particularly stood out in lower formula and an ex f1 driver who noone else wanted enough to employ, even when he was willing to drive for free/pay a million. He seems to think running a team on the bare minimum staff/budget/facilities and telling them to 'go and do it' is enough?

I don't know why or how he expected success. If he had employed a Brawn/Newey, 750 staff and grabbed a top driver or two then just maybe they would have had a small chance. To expect anything other than a back of the grid existence for the small (in f1 terms) investment put in is just totally unrealistic for f1 at the moment.

[anonymous-user]

If i were running a tema like that, i'd deliberately build a "qualifing only" spec car. That way i'd start every race on pole position, which would get then 10x the media exposure they currently get!

[slipstream 1985]

Max_Torque said:

If i were running a tema like that, i'd deliberately build a "qualifing only" spec car. That way i'd start every race on pole position, which would get then 10x the media exposure they currently get!

should play it like grand prix manager. Mega qualifying car 1 and 2 on the grid. Team orders driver one "go for it" driver 2 "block for whole race"