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The sooner you can accept this motor racing thing has devolved to marketing and being able to market your product, the better. The point isn't to let the engineering brains go crazy. It's to give a platform that you can sell to a board.
Should we go racing here? Are we going to have a decent (not fair) chance at seeing success? Yes? Ok let's go here's your budget, it's small. No? Ok don't do it.
The series realizes what conversations the factory teams are facing, and has amended the ruleset to make it an easier sell in the board room. More board rooms on track means more 3rd party board rooms want to dump money into advertising. See fox factory, sargento cheese, etc.
We as the fans are in an oxy moronic place. We think a faster car equals a better show. Better show equals more fans and therefore more advertising roi. Psyche! Participants (which we are not. Repeat. Buying a ticket or tuning in is not participating) prefer an equal opportunity to feature in the motorsport event. If they're guaranteed an off podium, thanks for running type consolation prize, they're not going to show up next year. Now imagine that's bmw.
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