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Montezemolo brands the new teams ‘a joke’

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Luca di Montezemolo has had yet another go at the new teams entering Formula One this season, branding them ‘a joke’.

The Ferrari president has previously called for the new teams to compete in GP2 rather than F1, and before that, he called for F1 to be renamed Formula 3 as the new teams made their debuts.

This time however, he says there is a need for more competitive teams.

“There is a need to have competitive teams,” he told Autocar magazine. “F1 is like soccer. It needs heroes and it needs big teams. You cannot equalise everything. We need to avoid having too many small teams because it means too many compromises.”

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His solution is to give a young driver a third Ferrari – a suggestion he has reiterated on numerous occasions.

“Giving this car to a good young driver or Valentino Rossi would be better than a team being four seconds behind,” he explained.

The Italian also suggested some ideas to spice up the show, including shortening races.

“Do we need to race at two in the afternoon when everyone is at the sea?” he said. “Could we have two races per meeting? Do races need to last so long? F1 is not an endurance race. We need races to be short and tough.”

Di Montezemolo also admitted Ferrari’s desire to compete in both F1 and Le Mans, however he said the company didn’t have the required money nor know-how.

“I’m very impressed with Le Mans but we can’t do both [F1] because of money and know-how and it’s only one race.

“Instead if we can put together an endurance series, either 12 or 24 hours, with other car makers and race around the world, that would be good,” he said.

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