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Following the ruling in a Paris court yesterday (Wednesday) that threw out its bid for an injunction to be granted against the FIA's contentious ?40 million budget cap for Formula 1, Ferrari has re-iterated its threat to withdraw from what it believes would be a 'watered-down' category in favour

Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen has dropped hints that the new optional ?40 million budget cap set for introduction in 2010 could be the final straw that causes him to hang up his grand prix helmet - contending that 'this is not F1 anymore'.

Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally und