Quote:
Originally Posted by JacobP
It's really interesting how Lotus and now Sauber delayed their driver line ups forever. Clearly, all depends on the money talks. I suspect that Lotus and Sauber will be some of the most unstable (in financial sense) teams next year.
|
The big problem Sauber has is that its infrastructure and level of team operation was built up and paid for by BMW and run at BMW size budget, trying get run even part of that on the budget they have available now is why they are in difficulty.
We have been over the Quantum and Russian investors on other threads, without wishing to pre-empt what might or might not happen, the question is where are the 'serious' investors, the hedge funds, the global banks - why are they not snapping them up, I suggest that it's because they are not seen as a 'good' investment.
What do you get for investing in an F1 team? Largely the requirement to invest even more it making it competitive and then spending the same again to keep it there....