Is F-1 fixed?

Question

Or is it just sour grapes from Briatone?

Answer 1

Nope, it's not, but the teams with the most money win. Poor old Minardi (RIP) never had a chance with roughly $55 million a year budget. Ferrari have Fiats "bottomless" earnings, McLaren spend a lot but at moment doing not as well as are Williams, Renault are doing the best job with little money. Think Renaultfan needs to pull his head out of the sand, and cast his mind back a few years... Everybody you named except Jean Todt worked for Renault (as Benetton) and saved it from bankruptcy by turning them into winners, without them you wouldn't have a team to support.

Answer 2

Yeah it's fixed. By people from 8 Place de la Concorde (Paris) and Maranello.

They want MS's last season in F1 to end with a non-deserved WDC.

My guess is that Flavio Briatore has every reason to be angry. The team he manages is the one to lose the most from the tricks played by the FIA and Ferrari.

Schumacher, Todt, Brawn and Mosley have this manic need for winning. They couldn't accept that they lost the championship in 2005, so now, in 2006, when they saw Renault was seriously gaining ground, they thought "why can't we impede Renault without anyone knowing? Nobody will see the link and Ferrari will be once again where they (DON'T) deserve"

Answer 3

There is a lot of tinkering, politicking, manipulating, bending, and cheating going on, that is for sure, but I wouldn't say it is totally fixed. Briatone didn't mind when his cars had automatic launch control, etc, so yeah, it's sour grapes on his part. When it's all said and done, it's Bernie Eccelstone's show, and he has free reign as long it is good for F1. In the F1 game, he probably knows every move made by all the team magicians, and then he casts his own magic across the F1 juija board, which he made.

Answer 4

Its not fixed, its just that the FIA is sometimes questionable in their reasons for their decisions, and the mass damper issue is odd because they have been used since early last year with no problem. You cant fix F1, due to the nature of the sport. Too many things could happen, accidents, break downs, safety cars at the wrong time...

Answer 5

it is fixed in the sense that ecclestone has vested interest in keeping the championship battle interesting and running until the last race of the season

a lot of things that are good for the sport tend to 'happen' like mclarens oil rigs failing a lot back in 1998 season when they were dominating the championship to keep it alive, no other teams oli rigs have failed funny that isnt it

and oil rigs are supplied by the FIA, which is owned by bernie ecclestone...

ferrari is most popular team, so viewing figures go up when they do well, michael schumacher is the driver most known (bcos he has won the most races), notice lots of coincidences like this

Answer 6

It's not fixed. Briatore's mental - Renault won last year, didn't they? And those people who think that last year was fixed so that somone other than Ferrari won, just don't understand the true nature of the sport.

Answer 7

no its just the better teams
who has the better formula wins
its the way of the game
think renult was one of those teams in the dust till they found the right formula
Thats why they call it formula one to get the number one fourmula!!!
and aparently Ferreri is really good at that
here is another example Williams and Mclaren fighting Ferreri to the end now they are not that great!!
hope this does you good!

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Give me a break. Is Nascar fixed?

Briatore just likes the drama. It's all just show.

Answer 10

nope, F-1 is`still broken. IF they could allow more teams to be competitive, maybe that would fix it.