[davyboy]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

As a general note, all this rubbish about road relevance has cost the teams vast sums of money, notwithstanding the rich teams v poor argument, I consider it a facile argument to be demanding a budget cap, when the FIA makes it more expensive to run a car.

Some may suggest that the manufacturers should ask a sum less than the cost of the engines so that it makes the whole thing more "fair". My answer is, stop pandering to road relevance, or the greens and go back to sticking big engines in small cars and make the drivers drive them. I'm sure a decent 4l V8 or V12 is going to cost substantially less than a V6 turbo power unit with all sorts of irrelevant (to racing) gubbins added to it.

Then the lesser teams will have more dosh to play with.

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