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Originally Posted by wolfhound
It seems like customer cars might be back on the agenda in the near future if the stories coming out of the stratgy group are correct.
I think we are looking at the end of F1 as we have known it between about 1975 and 2012.
I could understand somebody being allowed to use a customer car for say 2 years but after that would have to build their own car. This would allow a new team to build up their infrastructure to get a new team known and running well.
However there would need to be a restriction to prevent somebody closing down one customer car team after 2 years and setting up another one a few days later.
https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2015...customer-cars/
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118979 |
That's sportingly just. But they aren't going to do that. Some organisations are going to make cash selling chassis and they'll want to keep selling chassis again and again and again. They aren't going to refuse making money for something quaint concept beloved of the fans such as fairness or innovation or whatever.
F1 is eerily going in the direction of CART. A sport ran by teams who run customer cars. That produced the best racing around for a time but promptly imploded. Make of that what you will.