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Exactly, for a one off piece of software. And then you will have the tie in costs of an engineer to add aswell.
For an ECU that's actually quite cheap, years back in BSB, Magneti Marelli were charging over 6 figures for a full electronics suite and engineer to look after it for you. And that figure was much more in Superbike and MotoGP.
But in largely an open formula, I think really it is an unnecessary cost, there are so many variables in rallycross, limiting things like an ECU is silly when some idiot can take you out at any time or it can rain, I think it juts someones idea of getting a technical sponsor involved for the sake of it. And of course it is what other "big" formulas do, so IMG will just copy. As they do with juts about everything they have done so far. Little innovation, juts packaging.
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