riff_raff wrote:Interesting reading. But it has become apparent that the huge cost of participating in F1 is not justified by increased sales for the OEMs. BMW, Porsche, Honda, Toyota, etc are all hugely profitable without spending hundreds of millions on F1 programs.
Because there´s no R&D anymore. At least in the V10 era you could take what you learned and apply it on production cars (M5 E60)
If you were a better engine builder it actually made a difference back then. Now with fixed weight, CoG it´s more or less a spec engine with different characteristics.
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