F1 is unlikely to consider three-car team entries while the grid is already healthily subscribed.<\/p>\n
That is the insistence of FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh, amid Ferrari’s continuing enthusiasm about entering a third Maranello built car for a driver like Valentino Rossi.<\/p>\n
Rossi, however, broke his leg in a MotoGP practice crash last Saturday, and now Whitmarsh has revealed that the issue of three cars has not recently been discussed by the F1 teams association.<\/p>\n
“It’s really an idea if you get a reduced number of teams,” said the McLaren boss.<\/p>\n
Ferrari is a staunch critic of F1’s struggling new teams, but Whitmarsh insists that FOTA wants the entire current grid to “develop and flourish”.<\/p>\n
“McLaren, Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes would all probably be happy to have a third car, but I think in fairness to the smaller teams it would only disadvantage them further,” he explained.<\/p>\n
However, if the big teams were able to enter third cars, Whitmarsh acknowledges that it would be an opportunity for celebrity drivers like Rossi, Sebastien Loeb and NASCAR’s Jimmie Johnson.<\/p>\n
“So in the event that the number of teams drops below 10 – and at the moment we’re hoping it is 13 next year – it would be a fantastic opportunity,” added Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n
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