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Originally posted by racer69
I am not in favour of Minardi or Arrows etc.. buying cars, if you are able to compete in F1, you should be capable of building ur own car.
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Limiting participation in F1 to teams building their own car is a pretty recent innovation though- for most of the hisotry of F1, there have been 'privateer' outfits running either ex-factory team cars or customer chassis- Does anyone actually remember when the change happened?- it was late 70's at the earliest.
If you go back to the 50's and 60's, Maserati, Lotus, Cooper etc used to build cars specifically to supply to customer teams, as well as running works cars.
Given the choice between falling grid sizes and teams running year-old McLarens or whatever, I'd favour the latter every time