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Originally Posted by Graham Goodwin
You have the key to this in there - it's the difference between a motorsport programme being a profit centre (as an F1 engine supply deal or two could be) or a cost centre. There is huge pressure on every VAG company to apply that measure to every programme.
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With the current F1 engine regs I don't see how supplying engines alone can be profitable? The rough price of the engines is known and the numbers do not add up. The new regs in 2021 might change this. However, there's a lot of prize money to be given. By winning the championships Mercedes has basically recovered half of their budgets.