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Originally Posted by carbsmith
Spending to win? Against who? THEMSELVES.
Toyota had a sustainable plan and originally planned to use the TS040 for all 3 years before the update to the regulations. It was completely obsolete after one from Porsche and Audi trying to outspend each other and they had to delay the regulation change for a year so Toyota could afford to introduce their new powertrain early. As early as 2015 Toyota was asking for development restrictions to control cost and they had to jack up their budget just to stay in the game for 2016. Even the TS050 wasn't that competitive at most tracks, how much do you think they really needed to spend to beat Toyota for those three years?
No one should ever be outspending Toyota in the same series, let alone multiple times over.
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Again, how does the fact that TMG have their own wind tunnel reflect on their costs when compared to teams that have to pay to get access to a wind tunnel? It's more than clear that Audi were spending very big money on aero development, and that was because they had nothing else to work with, because of the regulations which "they directed"....