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That is the disadvantage of all these series, everyone invests enormous amounts of money in new cars that are used for maybe 3 years. There are worthless cars from A1gp, champcars, f3000, world series by nissan, Formula nippon, etc. that ran just a couple of months/years ago.
Just imagine that the fia would have mandated a new rulebook 10 years ago which would offer a racing serie 4 different types of technical rules. The start-up level (a la Formula ford), the junior level (a la formula 3 or wsr), the 2nd division (a la f3000/gp2) and the toplevel (f1).
Any new serie would only be allowed to receive FIA-approvel if they ran 1 of these technical packages. This would have resulted in all these series (a1gp, gp2/f3000, superlague, world series, etc.) run the same cars, which would have saved tens of millions of $ in r&d and construction of cars that now are worthless. Money that could have been used on building commercially strong series. It also would have resulted in fewer series, higher grids and less financial risks for teams. Easier and less costly for talents to move up (get experience in the cheaper national serie and move up to the international serie with the same car the next year). etc. etc.
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