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Everyone has tons of resources / big GPU farms / etc in F1. It's one of many limitations to stop the cost to be competitive from going to infinity. Typical co
by mlyle 6y ago
Everyone has tons of resources / big GPU farms / etc in F1. It's one of many limitations to stop the cost to be competitive from going to infinity.
Typical contender teams spend $300m/year.
- peteretep 6y agoWhat is a typical team? Biggest teams spend $450m, smallest spend $130m. The resource difference is very real, and the mean hides that.
- qeternity 6y agoAs another comment mentions above, there are now budget caps, which affect every decision a team make. For instance, one of the Mercedes drivers had a really nasty crash recently and the cost to build him a new car is putting budget pressure on Merc.
- AnthonBerg 6y agoThis reminds me of the invented sport Paced Badminton. It’s badminton, and also the players have pacemakers and are only allowed a fixed number of heartbeats per match.
- bhoflack 6y agoSince this year the budget cap for the teams is set to $145m/year.
- dgritsko 6y agoYes, but that comes with a pretty heavy asterisk - driver salaries are not included in the cap for example (which will be extremely significant for the top teams), nor is marketing. Still, I think it's a step in the right direction for the sport - having a cost cap in place now lays the groundwork for tighter restrictions in the future.