Wow! And I thought this season couldn’t get more disapointing.

To be honest, I’m not surpriesed by their decision to leave F1. Of course, it is defeat and perhaps will have some bad influence on marketing image. After all, they leave as one of the weakest team. But on the other hand, a lot chages have been made in F1 rules since 2009 season. Each team gets already made parts and their crucial work consists on setting up bolid from this parts provided by F1. Among these is main BMW’s weapon – engines! Last year their bolids had engines designed by themself and they were in lead. This year their bolid based on already made engine in which BMW’s engineeres can change only settings. In result, we get weak performance. It’s little wonder that when you take its best weapon from BMW back, they won’t achieve a lot. They had a lot hopes concerning KERS, but after all it was too heavy and give less advantage over bolids without it then it was expected. This with heavy driver such as Kubica, made BMW’s bolids less and less competitive. After KERS failure, they didn’t have enough time to develope other technologies in their bolid and in consequence they ended with weak performance.

The only scenario that could change decision to leave is two or three races with great result. I don’t know whether it’s possible this year.

Maybe Bernie will finally get the message: if you abandon your participant’s most lucrative market – North America – they’ll ultimately abandon you. I put this down mainly to Bernie’s greed.