What do you think of Ferrari Formula Restriction?

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Should the Ferrari Formula Restriction be removed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 99 71.7%

  • No

    Votes: 14 10.1%

  • I don't know

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 23 16.7%
  • Total voters
    138
It's the same reason why Porsche, Ascari, Konegsegsegsegsegsgegegeeggsgsgegsgeg, etc. aren't represented in the game: it's a money and paperwork issue.
 
Cauchy
"I can't use them anywhere," you are dead wrong here, as you can use them in practice mode races, the F1 seasonal, and online. Why would you want to line the F2007 up against gt cars? Also I don't know about you, but I havn't played A spec in nearly a month, so unless you like to repeat races in A spec it really makes no difference.
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I little oversized things, but I don't want to line F2007 or F10 against other cars, I mean that even at the seasonals, you go to the Ferrarri formula challenge, and select the F2007, the only opponents you get are F2007s, and not even F10s.
 
Complex One.

I guess your answer lays somewhere between licensing-based Bermudian Quadrangle consisted of:

- Ferrari Spa. Licensing Division (actual copyright owner of everything in the world with Ferrari branding on it),

- FOA (Formula One Administration) - company that holds the commercial rights to Formula One. These rights are granted to FOA by the FIA under the terms of the Concorde Agreement and are managed by Formula One Management.

- Codemasters - which holds the actual licensing rights for everyting F1 related in video-games untill end of 2011

- Polyphony Digital/SCE - who used some loop in licensing contract between upper-mentioned FOA (FOM) and Codemasters probably founded and initialised by above mentioned marketing/promotional/licesing division of Ferrari Spa, granted under unknown circumstances

Only logical answer was that Ferrari and Polyphony Digital agreed about inclusion of both F1 cars in GT5, but they had to avoid any real "usage" in order to save themselves from backslahes that would probably come because of various copyright/license infringements that very existance of those cars in GT5 could start.

Also, Ferrari probably didn't allow to have direct races between '07 and '10 cars because of different specs. Worth noticing is how '07 car run on grooved racing tires while '10 car runs on full-slick. You can argue "yeah, but they could allow it you know", but that is probably the reason why you don't work for Ferrari Licensing Department :)

What you should also take into concern is that Gran Turismo 5 is the ONLY game on ANY platform that allows you to have both F1 cars and regular cars in the same game, so in my book that is one hell-of-a-licensing-achievement from both PD/Sony side and I am very grateful for that - especially because I am more than aware about crazy issues in today world of licensing bussines and extremly complex corporate praxis towards branding and such, especially in automotive industry.
 
If people are wondering why the Ferrari F1 cars are in the game (and others aren't), I found this old GTPlanet article at the time of the GT5 launch in Madrid that explains it (https://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismos-new-era-begins-full-coverage-of-gt5s-madrid-launch-party/):

Why does Ferrari have the only F1 car in the game? While talking to a marketing representative for one of the manufacturers in GT5, I finally received an answer to this perplexing question. It all comes down to licensing and Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone. He commands control of the licensing for all of the cars in the series, with the exception of Ferrari. For reasons known only to Bernie and Ferrari, they have a special provision in their F1 contract which allows them to license their cars to whomever they please.
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^^ good post, and I've come away with an interesting f1 fact :D
 
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