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Old 15 May 2018, 11:37 (Ref:3822584)   #5604
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Originally Posted by FormulaFox View Post
If nothing was changed about the engines, they would be MORE expensive.

F1 races generally last around 90 minutes, while the WEC races run 6 hours plus the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Assuming 5 non Le Mans races, that's a total of 54 hours of racing in WEC(30 of them the non-Le Mans rounds) vs a total of 33 hours for 22 F1 races. Even if all the F1 races lasted to their two-hour time limit, they'd still run 10 hours less than WEC.
F1 also has 3 FPs and a qualifying session, 22 times. If a practice session is 90 minutes long and a car runs only 30 minutes of it, that's an additional 90 minutes, plus maybe 15 minutes on track during qualifying. 105 minutes additional per weekend, which is an addtional 38.5 hours throughout the year.

So that's 71 hours of track time, approximately. The same maths, plus a little more for Le Mans weekend, takes it to around 67.5.

Basically, 5 WEC races plus Le Mans is around the equivalent of 22 F1 races. But that doesn't start to talk about times between rebuilds, limit of components etc. Either way, you're not going to bring an engine cost down from $14m to $1m.

Toto already thinks they're cheap enough. From his point of view he's correct, because he's the one selling them, so he'd love to make some more money. Nothing from F1 will transfer over - their idea of cheap is ridiculous compared to the rest of motorsport.
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