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the easy ways of reducing the cost to the competitor involve dallara or their spare parts agent taking a hit on profit though, or maybe even not making any - cost of manufacture may be cheap but again, you're paying for the r&d cost on dallara's behalf. that's part of the problem i guess - where fr3.5 has consciously made an effort to kerb the evolution of the car to keep the costs down, gp2 has gone for the usp. which is fine when you can get people who are willing to pay for that.
i wonder if the economy of pricing the drives (don't know how to word that) has changed since a couple of the teams who did bargain drives have disappeared?
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