Graeme Lowdon unconcerned with lack of points – Formula 1 news
Marussia boss, Graeme Lowdon, has stated that he is not worried about the fact that the team has not scored a single point since their debut in 2010 F1 season.
“We haven't even scored a point in the last three years, but I don't think that's a bad thing,” Lowdon said. “This is the pinnacle of the industry that we're in. If you were to simply come into it and dominate, then I think it would be a bad reflection on
the sport.”
Like Sauber F1 boss, Peter Sauber, Lowdon has admitted that F1 has become very expensive. He said that F1 needs to take care of these issues and increase the value of entertainment instead which helps them the most.
He added, “Formula 1's got enormous global TV coverage, but we get 1.2 per cent of it, so that's not an asset that we can readily sell to a sponsor.”
He said that if the sponsors of their own team were considered then they only sponsor them because it benefits them on a business-to-business point of view. He told that even they have had a different approach but they were able to make brands sponsor them
which have never been related to F1 before. He said that it makes him very proud that many of these sponsors have stayed with them.
Sauber had given similar comments earlier saying that one of the biggest challenges in F1 is the commercialism and F1 has become very expensive. He said that the big and more established F1 teams should do something about it.
Besides Marussia, HRT and Caterham are also the teams that made a debut in 2010. HRT failed to find a buyer due to which it will not be competing in 2013 F1 season whereas Caterham has been securing the tenth place in constructors’ championship ever since
its debut. However, all three teams have never scored.
Marussia started the season ending Brazilian GP at tenth place but then Caterham reclaimed their position by the end. The team also remains the only team not to be offered the Concorde Agreement deal for 2013.
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