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cut and paste job.... Very true comments.-----Ferrari has called for a radical cut in F1 budgets.$100 million' should be adequate After a long period in which it was the best financed team in pitlane, the Maranello outfit is enduring a decline. Mother backer Fiat is in dire straits, big sponsor Vodafone is about to leave for McLaren, and the Italian team's worst year in the Schumacher era struck in 2005.Technical director Ross Brawn said Toyota's budget is around the $500m mark, and it was recently revealed that Honda spent even more than that during the year.''We need to make sure $100m is a more than adequate budget to compete and win in F1,'' the Briton told Autosprint.Nonetheless, Brawn reckons work at Ferrari this winter has never been as fever-pitched. Work is not only going into the car, tyre and engine, but 'improving the the organisation of the team'.He added: ''The lesson we've learned from 2005 is that we need to have a more aggressive approach.'' ____________________________________________________________ ___Now wasn't it Luca Di MontMarshmellow who said with a firm voice that Ferrari would test as much as they wanted and will spend as they wanted as they pleased when all these cost cutting procedures were being talked and reduction of testing WHICH Ferrari furiously objected to? Now Fiat has gone down the tubes, Vodafone said bye bye, Bridgestone most probably won't pay Ferrari 30 millions any more to do all those tire testing since now they have other teams that are back with them, unless of course BS repeats its stupidity on concentrating on Ferrari only again. With all that loss of sponsorship and money all of a sudden Ferrari wants to set a $100 million budget, a budget that would have made Minardi beat the crap out of all the other teams since Minardi survived on that kind of budget yr in and yr out.Sorry to say Ferrari once again shows its hypcritical side once again, and I hope they have another 20 yrs of winless seasons so they can reflect on their unsportmanship, and greedness and corruptness that Ferrari stood for the last 7 years
