Does seem a bit stupid of Bernie/FIA to give a new team no more than 9 months to get ready. Surely the idea of a new team is to increase the size of the grid so surely the best thing to do is to give the team as much time as possible to get ready so that it is a more prepared and funded team that is more likely to last compared to HRT and other teams with low budgets and not much time to prepare?9 months to build and F1 car. I going to set my default response to all conversations about Hass making it to the 2015 grid as "Lol, yeah right, never going to happen!" and wait to be proved wrong.
When was that? For the 2010 season?
Yes, I would agree that the last intake was rather political considering the FIA's push at the time for a £50m budget cap or was it $50m? Weren't the three teams selected because they miraculously chose the Ford Cosworth engine package that the FIA hinted might be a good choice?Manor and Campos did make it, but not in the form they were in when selected. Both had to be bought out (Campos might have even changed hands twice before the season started, can't remember) before the season started. And only Manor remain in the form of Marussia.
My point being that the FIA selected 3 teams to join F1 based on what form that team was in when they selected them, and not a single one of those made it without requiring substantial extra investment. But then the 2010 team selections were more about political allegiance than actually selecting competent teams they felt would thrive. I mean just look at some of the names not selected, and count how many points those that did have accrued in 4 years...
So basically, I think were all entitled to be rather skeptical about the FIAs ability to select teams
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I wonder what would happen if Haas can't get a team and car ready in time AND Tony Fernandes doesn't get fed up with Caterham F1's lack of progress and sells up to Haas. Would Haas have also acquired Caterham's F1 entry or would he still need to make use of the entry rights just granted to him? I'm assuming this comment is based solely on the fact you have BT Sport and don't have Sky Spots
I have both but if they got F1 I would get rid of the sky
I would rather it stayed on the bbc but sadly not, I used to watch all the beebs coverage. With sky I just turn on 1 minute before the start and turn it off at the flag.
Put it this way. I can get BBC F1 in HD. Or I can listen to Martin Brundle on Sky. I watch Sky.
I never ever tune in to GP coverage before 10 minutes to go. I'm just not interested in that stuff.
Agree with most of your post apart from the bit I've quoted.
Why are you being so nice to/about Lazenby? He's awful. Like you say, he's trying to be Jake Humphrey or at least that's what Sky want him to be and it doesn't work. 
