Will anybody ever break the stranglehold?

[Super Tourer]

Will anybody ever break the stranglehold that the top teams have on F1. In todya's climate can anyother teams innovate their way to success?

Sadly I think not. If you look back at how some of the pedigree's were started - John Barnard started the great McLaren MP4 series that dominated the 80's. Adrian Newey created the Williams that dominated the early 90's. This rollercoaster has just rolled on - along with Ferrari buying up anybody with a sniff of design talent.

I guess the 'Danka' Arrows of a couple of years ago was one of the most innovative cars from a mid-grid team, John Barnard designed it but unfortunately he is a designer with 'expensive tastes' - more used to the Ferrari/McLaren resources.

Arrows could barely afford to run the car, yet alone develop its potential and ironically for all the innovation they had - they would have done better with a simple, efficent car.

So I guess the answer is however clever you may be if you can't back it up with the budget - you end up further behind.

Which comes back to cash - and you guessed it the top teams. Ahhh......