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The BARC blame the costs of F1 for driving everything up in price. I see it as the other way around. When some parents are spending six figures on little Johnny's go-karting season, huge unecessary motorhomes, dataloggers, new tyres every five minutes and everything else, something is seriously wrong. The karters then move up into 'bigger & better' cars, naturally expecting it to be more professional, the teams oblige and costs spiral..the higher the move up the ladder the more expensive it gets. Similarly FF chose to go to slicks, to satisfy the karters that move up. In the 70s very few FF drivers did karts first...a trip to Jim Russell or Brands racing school was enough to get them started. Karting and the roots is where the expensive over the top professionalisation has come from.
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