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Originally Posted by chillibowl
Sounds like a proper technical partnership so willing to give it the benefit of the doubt…but am curious how all of this will play outside the budget cap?
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Trying to understand your budget cap question. Which budget cap? The F1 team cap or the new power unit manufacture cap? I expect Ford is primarily just a sponsor who wants their name on the engine. They may or may not be providing some technical input. At the end of the day, it will be a RBPT engine and they will follow the cap. If Ford provides "technical assistance" that will have to be accounted for within the cap somewhere. And oddly enough, I suspect that due to the power unit cost cap, it might dissuade someone like a Ford from actually doing much of anything on the technical side so they can avoid getting sucked into the required cost accounting and just write checks for RBPT?
Richard