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Originally Posted by Kicking-back
The cars are all funded by business consortia from individual countries.
John Surtees heads the UK franchise, Alan Jones the Australian one.
The one-country one driver thing is the whole point of the series - it's a "World Cup" of motorsport - and it's different to what others do.
Sheik Makthoum is SERIOUSLY rich, incidentally.
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The business consortia might fund the start-up but they won't pay forever.
Same MIGHT apply to Sheik Makthoum. Even if these guys are in it for the long term it seems to me that these guys don't want to lose money for ever. So what makes it an intersting serie for teamssponsors and where will the serie find it's earnings?
As for the "world cup" of motorsport: I understand that it has attractive elements (since the different nations might attract more attention), but i rather see talented drivers who are from the same country than guys like Yoong (Maleysia) and Tung (china) to name some.