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It would be useful to know where the money is actually spent.
Presumably a large chunk goes on staff salaries. Audi and Toyota must employ more people than Strakka and Rebellion, even taking the staffing of HPD/Wirth and Lola into account (pre going bust, of course). Limit the number of staff accredited at each meeting?
One of the best things about this sort of racing is variety. I cannot stand spec series. But maybe some lessons could be learned from the current DTM rules, which Audi knows lots about. You can still differentiate between makes while sharing common components. Lights, wheels, brakes, gearboxes, seats and belts, instruments, ECUs, fire systems, fuel tanks/bladders, refuelling rigs, etc etc could be sourced centrally. Having said that, it could be quite painful for the suppliers of these things who did not win the contracts.
Travel obviously costs. Is this managed centrally for the WEC like it is for F1?
I guess the irony of Toyota providing strong competition for Audi is that it will push both of them further away from the privateers in terms of performance. And so discourage more privateers from taking them on.
Ho hum.
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