German Car Zone

Formula one sucks and switching from 3 liter V10 to 2.4 liter V8s or one tire supplier is not the reason. Formula one is too damn expensive, has too few teams, and the playing field is far from level. One or two cars generally dominate the entire race. Formula one racing is not even remotely close and the car's aero dynamics don't allow close racing, at least the FIA has done something about that. Look at Le Mans series. That is exciting as the playing field is level and the races are close with lots of lead changes, maybe not in the case of the prototype class, damn R8! Anyways, the reason F1 sucks is because new rules pop up every year and only teams with huge bank accounts can effectively meet the new rules. Keeping rules in place for 5 years or so would greatly level the playing field. I've watched just about every race in the last 2 years and very few were remotely interesting/exciting.

Agree with you, Porsche Guy. The rules keep changing turned me from a decade-long fan into an uninterested watcher. I watched two races in 2005.

I like Le Mans, but I think the prototypes are not too interesting. I'd love to see sports car racing go back to the 1960s, 1970s heyday when the race cars looked like street cars. The Carrera RS, GT40, 250 GTO were classics, but they looked like normal street cars, not one-off prototypes.

Michelin denies exit...

Michelin quell exit fears
Supplier still committed to '06 success

(GMM) Departing F1 tyre supplier Michelin has moved to quell fears that it could lose interest in winning the 2006 world championship.

At the announcement of the Vodafone deal in Woking, McLaren boss Ron Dennis admitted that French company Michelin is 'disenchanted' with the sport.

''(We) hope (Michelin) will really concentrate on 2006,'' the Briton told media reporters. ''I think there's a strong reason why they would want to succeed if it's their last year.''

But Edouard Michelin denied that his company would lose focus by insisting that the tyre supplier will 'do everything possible' to maintain the edge at races.

He said: ''As (it) has always been the case since our return to F1 in 2001.''

Dennis' deputy, 'F1 CEO' Martin Whitmarsh, backed up Michelin's case by reporting that he knows that the Clermont-Ferrand tyre marque is fully committed to winning the championship in 2006.

''We will do our best to ensure that they leave formula one on a high.''

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is there any possibility that Good Year, Yokohama, Toyo or something like that will enter F1 so that there will be some competition???

I heard talk of a possible Goodyear comeback.