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Reuters

Ferrari could quit Formula One after 2020 if the sport’s new owners take it in a direction contrary to the Italian sportscar maker’s interests, chairman Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday.
Marchionne told analysts on a conference call that while he supported cost-cutting, there were other strategic issues under discussion that could force Ferrari to consider racing elsewhere.
“It (Formula One) has been part of our DNA since the day we were born,” he said.
“But if we change the sandbox to the point where it becomes an unrecognisable sandbox, I don’t want to play anymore.”
Asked how he would feel about being the chief executive who led Ferrari away from Formula One, Marchionne replied:
“Like a million bucks because I’ll be working on an alternative strategy to try and replace it. More rational one, too.”
Ferrari are the only team to have been in Formula One since the first world championship season in 1950 and also the most successful and glamorous, even if they have not won a championship since 2008.
They have accumulated a record 228 race wins, 16 constructors’ championships and 15 drivers’ titles.
It has long been accepted in Formula One that the Monaco Grand Prix and Ferrari are the two central pillars of the sport’s success, and their current share of the revenues reflects that special status.
Ferrari, celebrating the company’s 70th anniversary this year, first made sports cars to fund their racing activities under founder Enzo Ferrari and are a huge source of national pride in Italy.
Formula One has been under new ownership since January, however, with US-based Liberty Media taking over the commercial rights and ousting the former supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
Liberty want to level the playing field and rebalance revenues once the current agreement with teams expires at the end of 2020.
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Proposals for a new, cheaper and simpler engine were presented in Paris on Tuesday and there is another meeting of the sport’s Strategy Group next Tuesday to discuss other changes.
“Liberty has got a couple of good intentions in all of this, one of which is to reduce the cost of execution for the team, which I think is good,” said Marchionne.
But he said Ferrari and Liberty appeared to be “somewhat at odds in terms of the strategic development” after 2020.
“I think you need to be absolutely clear that unless we find a set of circumstances, the results of which are beneficial to the maintenance of the brand in the marketplace and to the strengthening of the unique position for Ferrari, Ferrari will not play,” he said.
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Marchionne said, however, that he would not pre-judge anything.
“We’re walking into this meeting next Tuesday with the best of intentions, we’ll see where it takes us,” he said.
“I am attending those meetings on strategy because it’s important, because it matters a lot to this business,” added Marchionne.
“The financial implications of the wrong choice for the moment going forward are pretty significant to Ferrari.”


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Kimi Raikkonen in action for Scuderia Ferrari at the recent Grand Prix of Mexico. But the Italian team could be set to quit the sport. Photo: AFP

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 filer, a Ferrari logo is displayed on a wheel in the department Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy. Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari NV has revised its earnings guidance upward after reporting a record third-quarter profit of 141 million euros ($164 million), up 24 percent over last year. The company, based in the northern Italian city of Maranello, raised its estimate for full-year earnings before interest, taxes and amortization to around 1 billion euros from above 950 million euros. It lowered estimated debt at the end of 2017 to below 500 million euros. (AP Photo/Marco Vasini, File)

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - OCTOBER 29: Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Ferrari on the drivers parade before during the Formula One Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 29, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico. Clive Rose/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - OCTOBER 29: Kimi Raikkonen of Finland driving the (7) Scuderia Ferrari SF70H on track during the Formula One Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 29, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico. Mark Thompson/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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Ferrari are the only team to have been in Formula One since the first world championship season in 1950