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Like I said before, he keeps moving the goal posts as to what he was talking about, first it was similar cost of building a Super Tourer, then he decided he as talking about running costs per car, now it's running costs for a couple of cars. Seems like a desperate attempt to try to make the figures add up and fail miserably. I am fairly sure Ford's budget in 2000 was something like £30M. So 3 Subarus at £600k each plus £350k for the initial car builds still falls far short of £30M. Even in the mid 90's Ford had yearly budgets of around £10M and that included the drivers wages.
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Put it down to my age. Or you could accept that I was talking about total budget. Up to you. In any event we aren't talking peanuts and you appear to consider a million quid to be a small amount.
I suspect whatever we are talking about, the number won't be sustainable. Someone mentioned the bespoke components in STs. This was not new, the Group A componentry was seriously expensive and even now when you restore a Sierra or BMW the parts are staggeringly expensive. |
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No one has said a £1M budget is peanuts, but it certainly falls short of anything like that spent in the Super Touring years. Team Hard were running all four of their cars for the cost of two BMR drives and still making a profit. |
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I think the story at the time was Ford spent £10m on the 2000 season. I can’t see how any manufacturer would have justified £30m
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4 Jul 2020, 16:20 (Ref:3985593) | #6633 | |
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With Fuller now out due to Bushell's return, perhaps Fuller could be in a position to still fill a seat even if only for part of the season. After all they had no way of knowing when Bushell would be fit to drive.
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4 Jul 2020, 16:28 (Ref:3985598) | #6634 | ||
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Howard was very stretched financially to fill the VW seat for one weekend on a temp basis. Unless his Amazon delivery lockdown job paid megabucks and other seats are silly cheap now I don't think he'll be on the grid this year.
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4 Jul 2020, 16:56 (Ref:3985614) | #6635 | |
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I guess that means the empty Beemer seat is out of the question for Howard
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Jordan was championship contender and that car is sure podium material , IMO a very bog loss for the series
too bad Sutton is in the Infinity, imagine him in that WSR Beamer, it would also answer if he is better than Turks or not |
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4 Jul 2020, 17:55 (Ref:3985637) | #6638 | ||
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As someone posted the day the Jordan news broke I would bet some drivers were checking their contracts. |
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4 Jul 2020, 20:49 (Ref:3985663) | #6639 | |
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A few points on running costs:
There's one driver who takes 66% of any sponsorship as his "fee". Teams go for that because he can bring a lot of sponsorship. If you're not a former champion and you need to pay for a drive, then it varies from team to team. The cheapest deal I've heard about was ~£60,000. For that, the driver had no testing, no crash damage, no engineer, minimum tyres. Typically, the lower end cars are around £150,000 plus crash damage. The most expensive car would be around £500,000 plus crash damage. In each case the team is making a profit at that revenue level, so the actual cost of running the car is lower than those figures. Nobody is saying that it is cheap. But it is significantly cheaper than it used to be, and the racing is better. I think it is safe to say that the combined budget of the entire grid this year is less than the budget of the biggest-budget team 25 years ago. Indeed one team was paying >£2m in driver salaries 25 years ago. |
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Listening to John Cleland on the Greg Rust podcast gives you a great insight into the expenditure 25 years ago. All the foreign testing and everything that went along with that. The tyre bill for one of Michelin's test weeks was probably more than it cost to drive for a season in the current championship!
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For operating cost its collectively roughly the same for a single team running 3 different programs (x1 Porsche, x1 F4, x3 Jr) on the package as one single BTCC car. The team own the cars and essentially hire it out to pay pilots for the year. Its more profitable as a business to operate on the package that trying to step up.
I'm addition a 2 car British GT squad is less than a 1 car BTCC team. Speaking of which there's a fast driver with funding looking for a seat possibly this term but outside chance at next year pending health and it might be a unusual pick... Rick Parfitt Jr. Last edited by medius; 4 Jul 2020 at 21:32. |
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£2m in 1995 is roughly equivalent to £3.8m in 2019 going by the Bank of England’s inflation calculator. That is one amazing figure. I bet a lot of F1 drivers wish they were paid that this year.
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this cars are like assembly line units and teams are just customers and they are BOP all the time not at al like in the "powertour" era and speaking of Cleland ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0NRiUnEy4o |
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When is the racing supposed to be starting? I do hope it's soon...
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Just watched an old British GT race at Castle Combe and got me thinking how good it would be to have on the BTCC calendar. Unfortunately I don't think the pit lane setup is quite up to scratch and also the strict noise restrictions they have there could pose an issue. Have the British touring cars ever raced there?
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if you fart at combe one of the nimbys files a noise complaint...
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