Originally Posted By: gofast182
We are in the midst of the most expensive formula ever along with the highest operating costs ever. If teams were going to say that's enough, they would've already.
That's a rather naive way of thinking. What you are saying is that any team who can bear the costs of today's F1, must therefore be able to bear all costs in the future, regardless of how they escalate.
We already have the back-markers struggling to survive and having no hope of being competitive. Renault are mulling their future. If Honda don't start improving they will surely pull the plug on an expensive folly (they have form in this regard). The biggest OEMs in the world aren't even participating.
When the benefits are so marginal, the costs of developing a workable differentiation are massive and require significant infra-structure investment. The response in the past has been to plaster new regulations over old ones to stifle break-away performance and now the regulations are impenetrable. Not to forget, the main stakeholders in all this are the sponsors, not the fans. They don't want cars failing to finish or trailing around at the back. Any team that does this will quickly lose their sponsors, which means less funding, which means less development, which means less performance......
We are in the midst of the most expensive formula ever along with the highest operating costs ever. If teams were going to say that's enough, they would've already.
That's a rather naive way of thinking. What you are saying is that any team who can bear the costs of today's F1, must therefore be able to bear all costs in the future, regardless of how they escalate.
We already have the back-markers struggling to survive and having no hope of being competitive. Renault are mulling their future. If Honda don't start improving they will surely pull the plug on an expensive folly (they have form in this regard). The biggest OEMs in the world aren't even participating.
When the benefits are so marginal, the costs of developing a workable differentiation are massive and require significant infra-structure investment. The response in the past has been to plaster new regulations over old ones to stifle break-away performance and now the regulations are impenetrable. Not to forget, the main stakeholders in all this are the sponsors, not the fans. They don't want cars failing to finish or trailing around at the back. Any team that does this will quickly lose their sponsors, which means less funding, which means less development, which means less performance......