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Originally Posted by WebberForWDC
Hmmm... There should be penalties built in depending on how much manufacturing equipment you have?
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Just one of the many loopholes they will never figure a way to close.
If they are serious about cutting back on spending, then do it through the technical regulations;
1. Make many of the major-cost parts standard-issue at a set price;
(such as uprights, brakes, hubs, gearboxes, spoilers, diffs, engine components and etc etc). That way nobody can spend big money developing/manufacturing them or have something that others can't afford or get.
2. Put a limit on the amount of engines that can be used in the season and/or per event. If they use more, then they lose big points (same as DTM, BTCc etc). Then they won't need the huge amount of engines that they keep.
3. Do what F1 and some others have now done....put a freeze on all engine and drivetrain development after a certain date. After that date, the specifications of those items are set and can't be altered for (say) 2 years other than safety issues. No more real money is then spent on development.
There are easier ways of strictly controlling the spending, other than a budget/salary cap which will easily be fudged....another example of which is; how are they going to control the amount of money a driver earns from his merchandise that he sells? How will they stop a driver getting, say, a bigger percentage of royalties from his merchandise to overcome his salary cap?