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By comparison, Lewis had millions spent on his junior career by McLaren and Mercedes and never sat in any thing but the best car in the best team as he came up the formulae. Ditto most of the recent Red Bull drivers. Would Ericsson have been sat in an F1 car for so long without the largesse of his backers?
To a certain extent many of the current drivers have been paid for on their way to and in F1. Clearly this is clouded when a father funds his son to that extent, as that makes it family patronage over corporate funding, but a dollar is a dollar as the saying goes.
I am looking forward to seeing how he goes and from my limited following of it, any Williams influence on his attitude and performance this year seem to have reaped rewards so far.
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