[V8 Fireworks]

Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks

F1 teams are fairly barebones operations of hundreds of engineers slogging away on parts for the car (or research on how to make it faster) in a huge open plan space: Here is a Toro Rosso factory tour for example

Oops, sorry that was a tour of some the machining and assembly areas at Toro Rosso.

This is the video of the open plan engineer's office at Toro Rosso, which I meant to post; it also covers the autoclaves and some of the testing laboratories which check parts that have already been used for defects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlINLjScjU

Originally Posted by Armco Bender

If the 650 employees salaries are performance linked then it wouldn't be costing Williams much for last years effort...

This is the same Williams team, who in 1993 claimed that "F1 is the pinnacle" and they didn't want "the bar of F1 to be artificially lowered" after all.