Yes, sponsors, but also their own money. If you can take in enough from all sources you can avoid spending your own money and, if you budget well, you could even post a profit. Neither of which are likely if your check from CVC is only $10M. You couldn't have even paid for a V8 engine contract with $10M.
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Marussia closed its door for good today. Nice farewell article Farewell to Marussia - F1 Opinion - Motor Sport Magazine
Of course Lewis could crash into Nico and take them both out on the first lap and he would be Champion... Going to be fun to watch!!!
Don't know why the announcers kept making it sound like Lewis has to win next week. He just needs to tuck in behind Nico and stay out of trouble to win the title.
It was Hobbs that kept doing that - his math skills are dubious. He also makes me crazy calling tenths of a seconds hundredths or vice versa. Same with hundredths and thousandths of a second. I was glad to see Matchett jump in and correct him on a few things.
I like him and I'm glad he's still announcing. Only trouble is on some days he's sharp while on others it seems like he's having one senior moment after another. I feel like these days he's just there to do the color commentary anyway, though, so I don't care. Hang in there Hobbo!
So Bernie wants to scrap the V6s and go back to the V8s in the name of cost savings. What say you all? Keep the expensive V6 hybrid power units. Or go with screaming V8 engines.
Bernie says a lot of stuff. Most of it crap. I'm fine with the new engines, bad sound and all. If F1 is to be relevant to the cutting edge of automotive technologies, then it needs to move ahead of where the automotive industry is now. Politics aside, the future is coming wether we like it or not, and the trend is towards more complicated, more efficient engines. Traditionally the first year of any new technology is always more expensive than the subsequent years. The problem is not the engines or the technology, it's Bernie. He's saying a lot of different things to see what sticks. Throw enough manure at a wall and eventually you have plaster. It's a negotiating tactic, just like the three car / five team blather.
If they really wanted to be cutting edge relevant, they should have gone to 4 cyl engines - that's where all the mfrs are concentrating the majority of their efforts and engineering resources. There might have been some synergy there, especially with mfrs like Honda, VW and Ford.
They wanted to, but Ferrari put the kibosh on it because, as they said "We don't make 4 Cylinder Ferraris." Everyone else was fine with 4, but... well... Ferrari. And I'm kind of cool with that to be honest. The world will be a little sadder when there's a 4 banger Enzo.
Let them rip with the turbo V6 and douche all the hybrid crap... Keep a cap on how much fuel can be used during a race and let the engineers figure out how to make the most power efficiently. That is technology that can be applied across the board, even to miniscule motors with hybrid stuff attached to them for the road...