Do you think james allen was right ?

Question

he just said in quali, ''without the sponsers there's no f1''

would you agree with that ?

Answer 1

Well without money theres no F1, but thats true about everything in everyday life, so I guess he is partly, slightly right.(It kills me admitting that James Allen is right)

But he doesn't half get on my nerves because the second after Martin Brundle said Massa had a cracking lap, James Allen says that Hamilton must have made a mistake. It drives me mad because he made excuses for Hamilton constantly during qualifying today. (I feel better now, after my rant).

Personally, I think advertisers waste their time, but i'm not complaining because they fund the teams. One of Ferrari's sponsors is Etihad, but I don't feel the desire to fly Etihad airways.

EDIT: Couldn't agree more with Jon. James Allen is a prat.

Answer 2

Its been a business since Colin Chapman's Lotus was bedecked in adverts

Look at football throughout the last 30 years or so, the expanse of sponsors (on the shirts, pitchsides) is omnipotent. F1 as with all sports, no matter how small, is dominated by advertising their sponsors and getting paid for it so they can do the same thing the next season and the season after that.

I think it was when Gianni Agnelli died, the Ferrari's ran with no livery. Beautiful.

Answer 3

No!

Answer 4

There would just be Ferrari enjoying itself on it's lonesome.

EDIT: It's been a business for some time.

EDIT: WICKERMAN. you make an interesting observation about how the teams performance affects the wider domestic market

Answer 5

pretty much unfortunately

Answer 6

James allen is a prat full stop.

But most sports need sponsors it helps allot, but you still need the fans to watch F1 because if know one watched it there would be no sponsers, who wants to sponser somthing that know one watches. Millions of F1 fans across the world, fans keep the sport alive just as much as the sponsors.

And F1 is the best.

Answer 7

someones gotta pay for it

Answer 8

It has been that way since Colin Chapman`s first flying ciggie (spell check will not allow F*G it obviously runs on American slang rules and not English, still at least we can get away with saying bollocks with no fear of electronic intervention) packets.

The business theory has since been revised and reinforced by political meanderings and vast wadges of cash from any direction you dare to point and probably from some that you wouldn`t even want to know or talk about, let alone point at !

I agree with it entirely.

Answer 9

Money makes the world go round :(

Answer 10

If you think about it,  we all pay for it

if your mobile phone is Vodafone, or drive a BMW  I am sure some of the profits will be going into F1

How many people though are put off buying a Honda or a toyota when they go BANG on the track ?

Swings and roundabouts ?

Answer 11

He's got a point. F1 is all about $$$. It's a really expensive sport, maybe only football can compete with it. And Super Aguri is a good example. They had no financial backing as their main sponsor didn't keep their part of the bargain and now they are F1 history.

If there were no companies sponsoring F1, we won't even be having this section in Y! Answers. Money does make the world go round...

Answer 12

Yes, actually.

They're one of the different pieces that makes f1 possible; without them they wouldn't have much money, would they?

Answer 13

Unfortunately, these days F1 is a business driven sport.   The teams have become so dependant on the sponsors that there are some decisions they cannot make without the sponsors approval.