How about this:
This
could turn into a chicken / egg type thing, so forgive me...
These figures represent yearly salaries in British Pounds
Michael Schumacher £19.1m
Rubens Barrichello £3.5m
Mika Hakkinen £6.3m
David Coulthard £1.7m
Is it
just possible that the teams are behind the No.1 drivers because of the money it's cost them (... or their sponsors
)?
Or is it that the driver has to earn the wages by producing the goods the previous year? If so, why does MS command
THREE times what the World Champion does?
I suggest that it's simply a case of a team doing all it can for it's primary player, and the second man (the substitute if you like) is there to clean up after a mess!