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Originally Posted by bathurst77
By having 2 makers, you now have 2 lots of R/D etc, but each maker only able to sell half the product. (yes the tyres are probably provided free or at a loss.. but the profitis in the advertising then) So doubling the cost of expensive stuff and the same number of tyres for the whole field per season.
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Going back a few years and now up to today, all teams have to pay for their tyres. Supposedly, this arrangement is meant to be on a cost plus a reasonable financial return basis for Pirelli.
It follows than that if two manufacturers are involved in supplying all the teams, that would then cost all teams twice as much for tyres with absolutely no benefit to them.