Thread: Rumours Customer cars to force out smaller teams ?
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Old 24 May 2015, 10:48 (Ref:3540608)   #121
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Originally Posted by wolfhound View Post
There has been no hanging round about customer cars. Mercedes has been approached by three current F1 teams about customer cars in the future.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119139

However we have a long way to go before such a plan can be implemented.
While Wolff mentions that it works in NASCAR, where several of the large teams provide chassis and engines for smaller teams, the huge difference is that in NASCAR the customer teams are able to beat the teams providing the hardware. I can't see that ever happening in Formula 1, should it introduce customer cars, as the major teams simply would not provide fully competitive cars - they'd always be a tad inferior.

I'd be happy to be wrong, of course, but I just can't see it happening seeing how egoistic and protective the big teams are even today.
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