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As much as I yearn for the times of the plucky privateer, we have to recognise the days of building your own chassis and sticking a Cosworth DFV in the back of it are long gone.
F1 is now just far too expensive and far too sophisticated for that simple concept to be viable.Just look at how far Caterham & Marussia remain off the pace....it's a hopeless task.
Unless more "off the shelf" cars are aloud I can see the F1 grid shrinking to no more than a dozen or so entrants.We've seen Toyota,Honda,BMW,Ford and Renault all come and go.........and I don't see any of them coming back as factory teams.
Nobody new is going to enter F1 and be competitive............the investment is beyond any sane company,we have to look to the current players....period.
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