It did say in the Brands Hatch program that Teddy Yip Jr's investment in Team Ireland was a catalyst for their success - too right if it has led to a technical advantage. What happened to "a level playing field"?
I would say that teams like China and RSA, who like GBR and India dramatically lost competitiveness, are also series-funded? I would doubt that those teams had lost so much competitiveness just through engineering and drivers - we are talking about experienced teams like Astromega and Dams here.
BTW what gears/springs did the A1-funded teams use - surely you need to have such things for the car to run? Were they old ones or cast-offs, or did they have to borrow them?