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UPDATE: Toro Rosso Future Unclear, Berger Admits
Written by: Adam Cooper
RACER Magazine   http://www.racer.com/speedtv
03/21/2008 - 08:07 AM
Sepang, Malaysia
 
STR can succeed without Red Bull, Berger says. (LAT photo) ยป More Photos

Gerhard Berger says he does not know what the future holds for Scuderia Toro Rosso, after Dietrich Mateschitz announced earlier this week that he would sell his second team.

The Red Bull boss says it no longer makes economic sense if the two teams have to build their own cars, and wants to offload his 50-percent share of the team after this season. Co-owner Berger says that he has no clear plan and has to wait to see what Mateschitz does.

“Always there are three or four independent teams struggling in F1,” said the Austrian. “It is always a fight. It is a financial fight. It is a technical fight. It is a political fight. Always fighting. But you have to go through this, and I have been extremely lucky to have a partner like Red Bull. But it was always clear when Red Bull came in that he is prepared to run two teams as long as he can work in synergies and run two
teams out of one technology center.

“From 2010 this is going to difficult, a couple of people are unhappy about that, and he says, ‘I am not going to be prepared to build and compete with two teams.’ I fully respect what he is doing or what he is thinking or what he needs to do. And for me, the most important thing in his statement was to say that if I sell my part, I am just going to sell it if I have somebody the same or better than myself, so that the team’s future is secure.

“Until this moment I cannot say what my position, is because I have to see it is the right future. Can we set goals and can we reach goals? Because the last thing I want is to just be in F1 and running at the back around the circuit. But on the other side if this happens I am totally happy to fight with the team and to fight through and to look forward to good times.”
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