25 Jun 2008, 18:05 (Ref:2237442)
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Originally Posted by Pete Fenelon
200k pounds = less than 300k euros. Which is still less than a reasonable F3 budget. I really cannot see how they can do a meaningful 'ladder' formula for 200k euros per car per year, unless it's one-make spec-everything with truly epic rules stability to defray initial costs, with some overall commercial sponsor(s) holding most of the rights to the series, everything run on an arrive'n'drive basis by a common pool of mechanics and engineers, and 200k being a token budget to get a few individual drivers' sponsors onto the wing endplates. Imagine Palmer Audi with some kind of big sugar daddy part-sponsoring everything.
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Thats the form I think it would take (should it ever comes into existence). Kind of like FPA but on a European scale and with bigger/more powerful cars.
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