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Originally Posted by TF110
Repeating the same thing doesn't make it true. Blaming hybrids and rules for the huge budgets of your favorite team is just funny. The fact is the VAG teams spend a lot of money because VAG has the money to spend. Their r&d budget is almost twice what the next auto maker spends. And that's (not) coincidentally Toyota. If they're gone then there's no reason for Toyota or anyone else to spend that much.
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You're right, but do remember that Toyota was able to lean on the infrastructure and resources of the failed F1 efforts. Having a wind tunnel already in place for example reduced the required budget because it already existed. This isn't the case for the VAG teams. Without the F1 effort spending money like it was going out of fashion, the LMP1 project would have potentially been more costly.