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Are you sure you really appreciate just how MUCH money is involved here? Even under the current tight regulations some teams are spending nearly a quarter of a BILLION dollars per year on engine development alone - and that's just re-developing the same V10! If you open it up just imagine where that budget goes - it sure as hell ain't gonna go down!
A few million per race for "some drivers"? For a start, that's chicken feed in the big picture, and more than compensated for by the return in FIA prize money for points and wins in the case of Schumacher, who is just about the only driver to earn that kind of dosh.
Tyre development is another vast expense, because of the number of testing miles. Something like 20,000 km (or more) of testing is being asked for, partly to develop tyres, for 2005... testing costs thousands of dollars per lap just in consumables (engines, transmissions, brakes, fluids etc) lat alone logistical costs. It's all very well saying open up the regs, but even the current level of expense cannot be sustained by any team, let alone the privateers.
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