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Hold on a minute, of course nobody in their mind doesn't agree that Mercedes have created a monster of a series by:
a) developing an engine that has nothing to do with the other F3 engines
b) helping ASM develop a car that looks like a dallara but has little to do with the actual dallara as used by the other teams
I can hear you shouting "that has always been F3, a free formula that development is allowed". True, but Mercedes went waaaay too far (in expenses) to dominate the category. Why? I really don't have a clue*. Now they are trying to "save" the series from the problem they have created by introducing weight penalties...
Oh and one last thing to fans of the British series that are ready to suggest that they always expected this, that BF3 is the best blah blah blah. Don't dilute yourselves, once a Mercedes engines finds its way on the BF3 grid things will never be the same for BF3.
* In theory each series has a marketing value to manufacturers and based on this racing budgets are allocated. A balance in competiviness is achieved because this value is the same for all and thus the budgets are roughly the same. If for any reason a manufacturer allocates double the budget for a series, chances are that they will walk it and leave the rest with the choice of spending the same or going away.
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