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Originally Posted by Mike E
It would be useful to know where the money is actually spent.
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A valid point, its all very good introducing cost caps but is this capping what a manufacturer team spends or what a privateer team spends? A cap of, say 30 million per season will likely give Audi and Toyota a few headaches for a little while but teams such as Rebellion or Oak Racing would still find themselves in a real battle to gain a fraction of that amount in sponsorship. Be interesting to know exactly what a big team's money is actually spent on, then you could start looking at which costs need to be cut.
Chernaudi's point of regular rule changes is the other major point here, if teams haven't already spent money on new cars, then replacing the old, larger engines and attaching enormous fins on the bodywork (probably as part of a costly big aero upgrade package) will have hurt the bank balance enough already, only to find that in 2014 they have to fork out yet more cash for something else completely new.
The only advantage I can see is if the new rules will be something stable that everyone likes and can survive with just a few tweaks here and there for a good 7-8 years, then the current period of concern and change will have been worth it. We've already lost a spectacular GT class, I hope we don't end up losing a spectacular prototype class too...