News Details

Plan for 'virtual garages' receives backlash from teams

Plans from Liberty Media to ban teams' 'mission control' rooms at their factories has received further backlash after Force India stated they would be against such a change. The plan is aimed at making racing less predictable and to further cut costs for teams. Asked by RaceFans at the French Grand Prix on the matter, Force India chief operating officer Otmar Szafnuer branded the idea "ridiculous". “Here’s the thing: What cost? We have the virtual garage already and so does everyone else. “So what cost? That cost is sunk. Getting rid of it is only going to cost everyone. We already have it.” Teams use their factory over a race weekend as a way of...
Full Story »
7y ago from GPBlog.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mallya proud of Force India's double century!

This weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix will mark the 200th race for one...
7y ago from GPBlog.com

Force India sees Renault now firmly in command of F1's...

Force India's Bob Fernley says it's likely the pink squad won't retain...
7y ago from F1i.com

Mallya denies Force India sale rumours

Jun.20 A source close to Vijay Mallya has denied the latest wave of...
7y ago from OneStopStrategy.com

Force India to celebrate 200 races this weekend

The Austrian Grand Prix will mark Force India's 200th race in Formula One...
7y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Strongest season yet for Pato O’Ward has been...

Pato O’Ward is having the best IndyCar season of his career, and is...

McLaren to auction future F1, IndyCar and WEC cars in...

McLaren is to auction future F1, IndyCar and World Endurance Championship...

Chip Ganassi: ‘We’re spoiled’ having drivers...

Alex Palou clinched the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series title over the weekend,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsecast Extra Episode 654 – 18.08.2025

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and...
2h ago from Arseblog.com

Insider provides worrying Arsenal update amid West Ham...

Arsenal are hoping to make a number of sales between now and the end of...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

“We never spoke” - Arsenal star Riccardo Calafiori...

Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori has outlined why he didn't text...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Paul Scholes responds with 3-word request after...

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes had a three-word request for his...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.