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Originally Posted by littleman
Why not let teams choose either option, buy a car off the shelf or develop your own if you wish.Can only make for a stronger, and perhaps larger, grid.
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Far from it, the difference in cost between the two options is enormous and with the car being responsible for 95% of a driver's pace, there would be no incentive for a new team to develop their own car and so teams like Caterham and Marussia could buy Red Bull or Merc chassis and shoot up the grid, then teams like Sauber or Force India would have to either spend huge amounts developing their own chassis to stay off the back of the grid or join the consumer brigade and then we would end up with two or three 'factory' teams and a MotoGP situation with no more potential race winners than we already have now.