Customer cars were once a thing in F1 and even since they were pretty much outlawed, the topic keeps popping up now and again in F1. Obviously there is plenty of pros and cons to it. On the one hand it could help new teams enter the sport. On the other it would be tougher for those building their own cars if they are beaten by a customer car and there might be a lot of arguments, which we can do without
It’s very hard to manage if you ask me. With major technical rule changes, like the one coming in in 2022, you can’t always run last year’s cars. If you are to run customer cars a lot of thought would be needed into it. Maybe it could work if a new team comes in, it can run a customer car for the first 1-2 years, with say a weight handicap so it doesn’t get a big advantage and then after that has to build it’s own car. It might work, it might not. But I wouldn’t want to be the one making the decision here
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